Long Island's economy has been shifting away from an emphasis on manufacturing for more than a decade, business leaders and economic planners said.

Although economic planners have not achieved all their goals, the economy has progressed rapidly.

Yet for the first time in years, economic planners are at least cautiously hopeful about the future.

No one can say where the country's first generation of economic planners, public administrators and diplomats will come from.

Since the 1970s, economic planners had been pursuing an ambitious nuclear energy program.

Despite these bright spots in the 1980s, overall results were disappointing to Chinese economic planners.

Mexican economic planners saw the depression as the most important capitalistic crisis of the century.

Two Party members said economic planners considered the province's economy to be among the most stable and orderly in the nation.

In 2007, economic planners expect China's already small budget deficit to shrink again.

But, as has been characteristic of such shock therapy in the past, the new economic planners have not included provisions for social programs.