Word: 24â
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decrease. Kerry is trying to blame Bush for record-high gas prices, now more than $2 a gallon in California, but a President has limited short-term tools for steering energy markets. The Kerry campaign reached the $24 billion figure by calculating that gas prices have increased about 24?? since the beginning of the year, and each penny increase results in consumers paying an additional $1 billion a year (a standard Energy Department assumption). Americans would pay $24 billion more this year if the average price for the entire year remains so much higher than the January prices, but energy...
Worse, the most crime-prone segment of the population?poor urban youths aged 15 to 24???will increase disproportionately at least until 1975. Sheer demography adds a racial factor: half the nation's blacks are under 21. Though victims of black crime are overwhelmingly black, it is chiefly young black males who commit the most common interracial crime: armed robbery...
Spectator Sex. To some visitors, the trap door and the glass wall are the real symbols of Hugh Hefner's achievement. Bacchanalia with Pepsi. Orgies with popcorn. And 24 girls?count 'em, 24???living right overhead! Not to mention all those mechanical reassurances, like TV and hifi. It is all so familiar and domestic. Don Juan? Casanova? That was in another country and, besides, the guys are dead. Hugh Hefner is alive, American, modern, trustworthy, clean, respectful, and the country's leading impresario of spectator...
...24???The Board announces plans for twelve regional discount banks, with a total minimum capital of $134,000,000 to unfreeze $20,000,000,000 worth of mortgages. Home owners begin swamping the Board with applications for cash relief. They are told the Board does not make personal loans...
Cotton men expect another drop in the Government crop estimate for September, look for no sharp set-back in price in the meantime. They recall the famed boom of 1927 when prices zoomed from 12½¢ a pound to 24??, most of the rise occurring in August and September. In 1921 an unexpectedly short crop of less than 9,000,000 bales combined with a sudden demand from textile mills (which were leading the way out of the post-War slump) shot cotton up 10¢ a pound in six weeks...