Word: costly
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...Broadway season when eight of the eleven new plays have been comedies, three of them sex farces, and the cheapest of four new musicals cost $5 million to stage, it is heartening to see work as simple, spare and serious as Metamorphosis. One just wishes it were better. Despite an effective stage- acting debut by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, the most ballyhooed highbrow event in the theater so far this year is all but bereft of emotional force. At the finale, two actresses stand rigid, their cheeks glazed with tears, yet much of the audience reacts only with uneasy titters. Director...
Prices in both January and February were pushed up by soaring energy and food prices, but the cost of other items, which are generally more stable, increased at a worrisome rate in February as well...
Energy prices jumped 2.4 percent overall in February, following a 4.9 percent increase a month earlier. The latest surge was led by a 4.1 percent rise in gasoline prices, the same as January's increase, and a 1.9 percent advance in the cost of natural gas. Fuel oil prices fell 3.1 percent, recovering somewhat from an 11.6 percent surge a month before...
...overall February increase left the Producer Price Index for finished goods at 111.7, meaning that a hypothetical selection of goods costing $100 in 1982 would have cost $111.70 last month. That was up 70 cents from January and $5.60, or 5.3 percent, from February...
Despite the severe price hikes in February at the finished goods level, increases earlier in the production process were more moderate. Prices at the intermediate level rose 0.5 percent while the cost of crude goods dipped 0.1 percent after two months of increases above 3 percent. A loaf of bread is an example of an item at the finished goods level, flour at the intermediate level and wheat at the crude level...