SEAN P. BRADY, a senior director at Cushman & Wakefield's East Rutherford office, said that demand for this kind of space had leveled off from the robust levels of 1999 as companies limited expansion plans because of the drop in the Nasdaq and a lack of available capital.
But would this still hold true in a society where robust levels of social capital existed?
Though sales recovered somewhat in November, they were still off 13percentt from the robust levels of November 2001.
But can all this money restore growth to robust levels anytime soon?
It's unlikely that Bloomberg will have the same robust levels of growth it did during Wall Street's boom years, Mr. Doctoroff acknowledges.
Shares in emerging economies, where growth rates rebounded strongly to robust levels after a brief slowdown, did best.
Even Osborne, a committed free marketer and the latest chancellor to stress that Britain is open for business, in his last budget, expressed doubts about the bid and sought more robust levels of commitment from Pfizer.
Mr. Dudley said predictions that productivity gains would remain high -- and therefore that growth would return to historically robust levels once this cyclical downturn ended -- might be overly optimistic.
The report also said there was a "lack of government vigour" in ensuring essential services, like the electricity and communications networks, airports and ports, were being protected to consistent and robust levels.
That may turn around this fall, stimulating a modest rebound in economic growth -- but probably not enough to push the growth rate back to the exceptionally robust levels of recent years.
The BLS actually revised up its payroll employment figures for July and August to more robust levels, and in September found people working longer hours at higher pay.
