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...CARROLL # 512" was waiting at the curb while the rush-hour traffic crept forward in the darkness at the foot of the John Hancock Building. The press bus was on time, if I wasn't, and its fog-covered windows held forth some hope of reportorial warmth inside, even if those 14 black letters and numerals on its side dimmed my hopes that this would be a presidential campaign press junket worthy of Tim Crouse, Hunter Thompson or Teddy White...
...high 15.4%. September's moderate increase in living costs was led by services, such as college tuitions and doctors' fees: the services category of the index jumped 1%, its biggest monthly rise in a year. Encouragingly, however, food prices-a major source of inflationary pressure last summer-crept only slightly higher in September. Productivity in the private nonfarm economy jumped at an annual rate of 9.4% in the third quarter, and since workers' pay rose less, unit labor costs dropped a trifle, lessening upward price pressure...
Putting on her usual fixed smile and brave front in public, Catherine said she was confident that all the aberrations that might have crept into Patty's personality over the months would soon be exorcised. The fact remained, however, that her daughter faced an arm's-length list of serious charges. I'm very apprehensive," said Willie Hearst-and Randolph Hearst seemed as reserved as he was relieved...
...dead, he has written a book. This is the age of dreadful domestic disclosure (Elliott Roosevelt nipping at Eleanor in the guise of historian; Nigel Nicolson vicariously reveling in the vagaries of V. Sackville-West). A friend of Pooh therefore at first approaches Enchanted Places the way Piglet crept up on the Heffalump trap: full of horrible fascination but ready to run for his life...
...ever did in wages. A high school teacher can insist on no more than 34 students to a classroom. In the past decade, though the city's population has declined, the number of its employees has risen 38%, to 340,000 - and the average of their salaries has crept up 10% each year...