After increasing at more than 2 percent per year between 1950 and 1973, the growth rate of average labor productivity ________ between 1973 and 1995, and ________ between 1996 to 2007.
A. slowed; picked up
B. speeded up; accelerated even more
C. slowed; decreased even more
D. speeded up; slowed
Answer: A
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