Spending on such "durables" dropped at a 12 percent annual rate in 2008's third quarter and at a 20 percent rate in the fourth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservative Edge - The worlds first conservative online information and news source!] Reference

Consumer durables in particular were strong last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Economic Advisors Chair Tyson] Reference

Excluding defense, all other durables decreased 0.7% in June.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Slide] Reference

Year to date, durables are up 16% from the same period in 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Rise Less Than Expected] Reference

Excluding defense, all other durables decreased by 1.2% in August.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Drop] Reference

Wall Street expected a decline of 3.0% in overall durables for October.    From Wordnik.com.  [Data Indicate Faltering Demand] Reference

Sales of cellphones, cars, motorbikes and other consumer durables soared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Bomb Ticking in 'Mini-India'] Reference

And electronics, consumer durables, already available and a lot more cheaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2002] Reference

Overall, construction jobs are up, auto jobs are up, consumer durables are up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briefing By Secretary Of Labor Robert Reich] Reference

Outside transportation, orders for all other durables rose by 2.0% in last month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Drop] Reference

Excluding the transportation sector, orders for all other durables declined 4.4%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Data Indicate Faltering Demand] Reference

Imports -- commodities: grain, machinery and parts, consumer durables, other foods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Imports -- commodities: machinery and parts, consumer durables, foodstuffs, textiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Year-to-date, durables are up 15.2%, in unadjusted terms, from the same period in 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Drop] Reference

They provided easy credit for the purchase of consumer durables like cars and new homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dilip Hiro: America Is Suffering a Power Outage ... and the Rest of the World Knows It] Reference

That makes the 1.2% increase in services and 2% increase in non-durables very important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: An In-Depth Look at the GDP Report] Reference

Overall durables in May fell 0.8%; previously durables for that month were seen down 0.6%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Slide] Reference

Overall durables in June fell 0.1%; previously durables for that month were seen down 1.2%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Rise Less Than Expected] Reference

Outside of the transportation sector, orders for all other durables decreased by 0.6% in June.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Slide] Reference

Consumer durables spending is intrasensitive, and capital equipment spending is intrasensitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Economic Advisors Chair Tyson] Reference

Year to date, durables are up 16.5%, in unadjusted terms, from the same six-month period in 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Slide] Reference

LG is an acknowledged market leader in consumer durables in India, both in urban and rural areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [LG Electronics: Rural Is the Future] Reference

Outside transportation, orders for all other durables fell 3.8%, the biggest drop since January 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Rise Less Than Expected] Reference

Consumer durables spending at best has stabilized, up slightly from its low in the fourth quarter of 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why We're in for a Long, Hard Economic Slog] Reference

Capital goods output surged 63.0 percent and consumer durables production grew 22.1 percent over last July.    From Wordnik.com.  [India's Industrial Output Surges In July] Reference

Imports -- commodities: machinery and parts, grain and food, plastics and rubber, consumer durables, textiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

The government has promised to import 300,000 consumer durables from China and to sell them at rock-bottom prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugo Chávez's hold on Venezuelan assembly in the balance] Reference

June's report suggested flat demand for durables in the future, with unfilled manufacturers 'orders were unchanged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Slide] Reference

Fisher: Consumption goes through the roof, and particularly in terms of things that you think of as consumer durables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Briefed: Ken Fisher] Reference

The August report suggested less demand for durables in the future, with unfilled manufacturers 'orders decreasing 0.1%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Drop] Reference

Overall durables in July were seen higher, rising by a revised 0.7%; previously durables for that month were seen up 0.4%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durable-Goods Orders Drop] Reference

Homeownership rates, the number of cars per driver and the ownership of a whole range of consumer durables hit new records.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Ask: When Will the Pain Go Away?] Reference

Improvements have come in a variety of intrasensitive spending, business investment, consumer durables, residential housing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briefing On Fy95 Budget By Panetta Tyson Rubin] Reference

It got started in the 1920s, when expensive consumer durables like cars and refrigerators were first produced in mass quantities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Ready for the ‘Pain Of Paying’] Reference

Beyond this, Nordhaus and Tobin consider the effects of treating all durables as capital goods but find that this has little effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference

It consists of the actual and imputed expenditures of households and includes data pertaining to durables, non-durables, and services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subprime mortgage mess just a symptom of what ails us] Reference

Unless borrowers trade up for new vehicles or buy consumer durables using their credit cards, there will be few loans to package and sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [No TALF? It Isn't a Problem] Reference

At a certain point prices of major durables such as homes are low enough to encourage new categories of consumers to enter the marketplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheldon Filger: U.S. Economy Risks Dire Prospect of Hyperinflation] Reference