Word: dweller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street as to the professional economist, the best barometer of inflation is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index, which charts monthly changes in the prices of some 300 items in a "market basket" bought by the average city dweller. Every time the index rises a half point or more, it triggers automatic wage hikes for 2,600,000 industrial-union members. By moving upward over the past two years (it is now at a record high of 127.5), the index has conditioned most Americans to believe that the U.S. is gripped by creeping inflation. Last week...
...best Crimson teams in years and the second-ranked sextet in the East was scared for three periods of play Saturday night before king out a 2-1 victory over Cornell, the Ivy League cellar-dweller and a team that has lost all of its 26 Ivy games since joining the League...
Around the Y. But the central fact of Nigerian politics is not a clash between townsman and bush dweller. It is, instead, racial and religious rivalries pointed up by the mighty Y that is stamped across Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that pours from the cloud-ringed Camerounian mountains in the east, and the majestic Niger that comes in from the west to join the Benue in a single mighty stream running south to the Gulf of Guinea...
...Paulo Slum Dweller Carolina Maria de Jesus is against Father's Day; see HEMISPHERE, Life in the Garbage Room...
...what they wanted for some time. They admit quite candidly that they want to pass all the bills the President vetoed during the last eight years, and quite a few more besides. They want to see what the Federal government can do for the unemployed, the Negro, the slum-dweller and the old man (not the "senior citizen"), if it really puts its mind and money to it. The Democrats do not, it appears, regard GOP warnings that this kind of behavior reduces the freedom of the individual with any great seriousness...