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She is setting up “informa tional interviews" in the public relations field, hoping they will lead to job interviews, "I have friends who graduated with the very same major as mine last year, mid they still are look ing,” said Denning, 22, who will graduate in May. “It’s very scary.” The booming job market of the late 1990s started to give way early in 2001 and soured signifi cantly last year. This year it is even tighter. The bumpy econo my and war with Iraq have dis solved earlier hopes that things might turn around this spring, said Philip Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. “Everything is on hold,” Gardner said. “I have employers who say they have intentions to hire. They just don't know when.” Some companies are hiring, they said, but not in the num bers of the past. Graduates are in relatively the same fix as their counterparts were 10 years ago with the reces sion of the early 1990s, according to Gardner and others. The differ ence, they said, is that 10 years ago everyone knew that the econ- ... , , f By leannim when things will snake onji | ; ‘ Douglas Buchanan, dire® I thE A s s 0 (1A! !e battalk The pair of rep [the Commerce Idnesday highly I batch of pothof The reports pruary was a nth for the ge said Lynn I nomist at Banc pital Manageme I negative effe ather, worries career services at the Um of Missouri-KansasCity. WASHINGTOt “Now it's like everybi jther and prew waiting on something,’’Buell toll on the ( said. “Everything depeni jruary: New^j everything else.” ■nged to the kv 1 hat inability to pteiiBrly three years; turnaround also weit lifers saw their dei Gardner. Because of it. tii “in all my (20) yearsof this. 1 haven't been qu pessimistic.” In August, a survey bym is hittillg National Association ofColp“THp rgn and Employers showed employers expected to liiri percent fewer graduates spring. When the survey updated in December, one- of the respondents said planned additional cutbacks '■A iMofkidsaitlwCkding war » hard and still coming up « , said Camille Luckenbauglt association's employment in) mation manager. “Last year people werete the first quarter of this yearra be a turning point, but that isiB^ 1 T , h w f i I JU. i Ncit came ( appening. We keep hoping see a spark somewhere, hit i just haven't seen it yet.” The average offer to com] science graduates sank 111 cent, from $51,429 in 2002 to $44,678 this Starting salaries slipped engineering disciplines increased about 1 percentfotl eral arts graduates. p,/- Although the overallfe ^ WdlMb d picture looks glum, gradual® JCCindtionS education, health care and t) food industry are among to ^STIN (AP) — who should fare better than it)/ ntrol issued an area universities repoiii lalth has notified Graduates in computer see alth departments technology and consultingta disease should r bleaker prospects. | f 1e CDC issued it 'accinators also immu trease in oil p dine in the stock New-home sale percent to a usted annual rah lowest level s n steeper, 1. line in January. 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