Noted anotherWhite House aide: "We don't want the hysteria building around the Sovietaccident transferring over to the American power industry."

另一位白宫助理说：“我们是不会让美国核电工业建筑像苏联的一样。”

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In both countries, jobs are disappearing fast in the construction industry, because of collapsing house-building.

在这两个国家，由于房地产泡沫的破灭，建筑业工作消失现象都非常严重。

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Much of the US house building industry, however, is now dominated by large-scale builders, such as Toll Brothers or DR Horton, which are listed companies.

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"The number of people employed has probably dropped about 40% and a lot of smaller companies have disappeared, so you have seen a widescale reduction in the capacity of the house building industry, " he says.

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House building industry body Homes for Scotland described the overall rise in lending for house purchases in the second quarter as "positive news", as it demonstrated that the demand for home ownership still existed in Scotland.

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