Other top Fed officials also want more information on whether the productivity of American workers is continuing to rise.

Still, the association concludes that the region's productivity and per-capita income will continue to grow.

Most important, productivity has continued to rise, surprisingly, right through the recession.

Among other evidence, he cited the fact that productivity has continued to grow extremely quickly despite a two-year downturn in investment.

But contrary to these expectations, productivity has continued to grow strongly.

Government economists predict that productivity will continue to grow for the next 5 to 10 years at around 2 percent a year.

The spread of Patchell's irrigation ideas improved local productivity and the town continued to expand.

Had productivity, for example, continued to grow at the average postwar rate through 1980, today's output would be 30 to 35 percent higher.

On a less upbeat note, the productivity of workers continued to grow, but more slowly.

Beveridge's productivity continued, this time with 48 points in 34 games.