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  • All indications suggest getting them back into "wants-based" mode won't happen anytime soon.

    Auto Observer 2010

  • Then the second place we started to see some improved businesses in industries that are needs-based rather than wants-based and so our packaging business while our quarter orders were down in the second quarter really more of a timing issue as we said we have got more orders for Quattro's in the first four week of this quarter than we had our last quarter.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Then the second place we started to see some improved businesses in industries that are needs-based rather than wants-based and so our packaging business while our quarter orders were down in the second quarter really more of a timing issue as we said we have got more orders for Quattro's in the first four week of this quarter than we had our last quarter.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • "We have had a fundamental shift to a needs-based economy from a wants-based economy,"

    SmartMoney.com 2009

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