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Hyman calls this shift “mission creep...
...Bureau had its mission increased,” Hyman said. “It sort of started to creep to help people who had more and more serious illness...
...Finally, she started moving--first by joining a swimming pool, then walking, hiking, biking, even surfing for a while. To this day, she limits what she eats, exercises at least an hour a day and steps on the bathroom scales every morning to make sure her weight doesn't creep back...
School is over. Commencement has yet to begin. Events with names like “Champagne Brunch” and “Booze Cruise” creep up. And after four years of succeeding on grit and grind, Harvard’s stately elders learn, for once, how to do nothing useful...
...Technically, it never went away. Consumer prices creep up a bit every year. But for the past couple of decades the annual rate hike has been falling--to just 1.7% in the past 12 months. Now the rate of increase is rising. It should exceed 2% this year and reach 4% to 6% over the next five years...