U.S. Economy: Dollar Drop Means Nebraska Jobs, Gillette Sales

Tony Raimondo told Congress last year that an ``overvalued'' dollar was hurting his company's exports of grain bins and silos. He's not complaining now. He's hiring.

As the dollar lost a fifth of its value against the euro from January 2002, export orders at Raimondo's Behlen Manufacturing Co. rose to about 25 percent of total sales in May from less than 8 percent a year ago.