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Defense, Fire Reconstruction Propel San Diego Economy

Don Bauder, SAN DIEGO READER

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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"But for the grace of defense spending, San Diego would look a lot more like other economically devastated regions of the southwest," says Cunningham. Reconstruction from the 2007 fires also produced some growth, as natural disasters always do.