Employment, on a quarterly basis, remained flat and has remained flat over the last two quarters despite record orders and rising backlog last year. Predictably, orders plunged from the fourth quarter's near-record level to a far-from-anemic $37 billion. Likewise, sales followed its seasonal pattern by declining from the end-of-the-year surge some 11%. During the quarter, military exports fell below $2 billion for the second time in four years.

In Billions of Current Dollars	1Q 2001	4Q 2000	% Change 4Q00 to 1Q01	1Q 2000	2000 Year-End	1999 Year-End
Aerospace Sales	$38.27	$42.97	-10.9%	$35.22	$154.69	$157.09
Profits	$2.36	$1.54	53.0%	$2.13	$7.24	$10.21
Orders	$36.66	$49.99	-26.7%	$33.77	$174.59	$128.17
Exports--Total	$14.94	$14.31	4.4%	$12.87	$54.68	$62.44
Exports--Civil	$13.04	$11.90	9.5%	$10.12	$45.57	$50.62
Exports--Military	$1.90	$2.41	-21.1%	$2.75	$9.11	$11.82
Employment (in thousands)	787	788	-0.1%	802	791	815

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