Labels:crt screen | hakham | plant | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: LAYOFFS HAVE CAST CLOUO OUR CONSUMER COMFORT POL 199 1993 PERSONAL NATIONAL SCONOMY BUYING CLIMATE Consumer conf fidence slipped last month. as the weekly MONEY! ARC News Consumer Comfort Index fell from -37 T early August -39 Sept The public': view the buying climate and their finances held but layoffs a1 Kodak and Texas Inst truments added economic worries Though the jobless rate improved this summer, nervous 41% call unemploy ment the economy higgest prablem CLOVD CTMATE Consume confidence mouth coioim prohlem