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There are a variety of reasons for the gap between the sharp price hikes that many people see and feel and the soothingly mild ones that the Government reports each month. One source of the disparity is the Consumer Price Index itself. Composed of a so-called market basket of goods and services ranging from haircuts to houses, the index measures the prices paid for average purchases by the average consumer. The trouble is that such people do not really exist. The C.P.I. assumes that shoppers spend 18.7% of their income on food, for example, without allowing for individual differences...
Though the Prime Minister had insisted that he was not going to the U.S. with "a shopping basket or a beggar's pack," it was obvious that his country was in desperate need of assistance. Inflation is running at almost 500%, and foreign reserves are dangerously low. Accordingly, a sympathetic President Reagan promised Peres that the U.S. would accelerate the delivery of this year's $1.2 billion in economic aid, paying the entire sum immediately instead of stretching it out through the usual quarterly installments. That will raise Israel's reserves to nearly $3 billion, thereby reducing...
...Capbreton, France, but decided against a descent in the dark. The following afternoon, with ballast low and a storm approaching, he and Rosie were finally ready to settle down near Savona, Italy. "I knew it was going to be an interesting landing," recalls Kittinger, who was thrown from the basket as Rosie hit some trees. Jubilant despite a broken foot, he had just one regret. "I wanted to land in Moscow," he announced. "Not for political reasons, but because it would have been the longest possible trip." Already, of course, he's dreaming about the Pacific...
...throbbing with an emotion that we never see Orgon arouse in her. The play's visual imagery is equally extreme. At the moment the lights go up on the institutional white, bricklike walls, geometrically marked floors and scattered cushions that are to pass for a Paris mansion, a basket is overturned, and the stage is suddenly bestrewn with red apples, which reappear throughout the show as tokens of temptation or insignia of passion. At the end, Tartuffe arrives to claim Orgon's fortune in a 1930s gangster-style roadster that literally bursts through the back wall...
...this is cant. Michael Jordan of the U.S. team pretends not to see the basket, then lunges toward it, as if stumbling on the court. Suddenly he leaps, glides, hangs in the air. The ball is cradled in the palm of his hand at the side of his head. Still flying, he flicks his wrist forward, as if waving hello, and the ball sets off on a flight of its own. When the hoop is scored, Jordan is airborne still. Why are we pleased...