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The Honolulu Advertiser - Business Business articles for Wednesday, December 25, 2002

Business
•	Holiday sales may be weakest in 30 years
•	Factory orders fall unexpectedly
•	November jobless unchanged at 4 percent
•	Merger, economy drop JAS shares
•	SMALL BUSINESS Success molded on family ties
•	Forecast partly cloudy for small businesses
•	Hawai'i small businesses get record $39M in aid
•	Alaska birch begets cottage industry
•	MANAGER'S JOURNAL Hawai'i experience brings lessons in surviving economic crisis