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Other investment metals have been better buys in the past year. Platinum, at $5 10 per oz., has risen by almost 75% since last October. Silver, at $15.92 per oz., has nearly tripled, largely because investors have been buying it as a sort of poor man's bullion...
...same period, cash wages and salaries went up only 10% a year. Boosting benefits is much more difficult now; they are included in the guidelines calculations and are becoming costlier to provide, especially in the case of medical insurance plans. Last year such benefits rose by only 9.5%, and almost all of that increase reflected higher costs, not expanded programs...
...moment though, the Chinese seem especially interested in American brainpower. At almost every stop on the tour-at a seismological observatory outside Peking, at an electronics plant in Changzhou (Changchow), at hospitals in Shanghai, in scenic Hangzhou (Hangchow) and at fisheries near Canton-we were told of leading American scientists who had already been there...
Cornell began to break the game open early in the third quarter. The Crimson defense was on the playing surface almost as long as the Astroturf in this one, and the wear began to show...
Those ten laughs are good ones, and probably worth the price of admission, which is, as the show constantly reminds us, "only a buck." Almost every scene has one good gut-buster, and some have two; cleverness sparkles in the opening "trio" and the talk show sketch, among others. Besides, the laughs are very evenly spaced out around the vast Russian steppes of tedium. And if you don't feel like laughing, there'll always be a well-orchestrated Lampoon claque there to help you along. It's amazing the way these people have learned to threw their voices...