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...their ceilings, and a feeling after the Soweto riots in 1976 that any loans to the country were a high-risk proposition. In the last year, as much of the previous debt has been paid off and the memory of Soweto has dimmed, bank lending has begun to creep upward again...
...disgusting creep...
...growth for the year is 4% to 8%. Says Rudolph Penner, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute: "If there's no clampdown on the money supply very soon, inflation will be back next year with a vengeance." Already, there are signs that inflation may be starting to creep back up. The Government announced last week that consumer prices, led by higher energy costs, rose at a 6.7% annual rate in May. For the past two months, prices have gone up at a 7% yearly clip, compared with a 3.9% rate...
...their ceilings, and a feeling after the Soweto riots in 1976 that any loans to the country were a high-risk proposition. In the last year, as much of the previous debt has been paid off and the memory of Soweto has dimmed, bank lending has begun to creep upward again...
...members of The Collaboration creep and crawl and slither onto the stage, swinging their arms around and shrieking like monkeys. One of them spots the microphone in the center of the stage reaches up, touches it, and screams. Then he straightens up, grabs the mike, scans the audience, and then, eyes directed up toward the heavens, says: "I've discovered comedy." And in the following two hours of skits and songs and improvisational routines. Boston's newest comedy group livens up the stage and introduces its audience to a pleasure most people outside Chicago have never previously discovered--live comedy...