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Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate
-(Figure: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate) Look at the figure Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate. The distance between each labeled point on the horizontal axis is one year. Unemployment was ______ between 1/2001 and 1/2003 and ______ between 1/2007 and 1/2008.

A) increasing; decreasing
B) increasing; increasing
C) decreasing; increasing
D) decreasing; decreasing