Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether inflation can be kept from marching right back up again in future years of recovery depends heavily on what happens to wages. In the long run, most economists think, prices tend to rise at about the rate by which labor costs exceed productivity gains, although special factors, such as wild fluctuations in oil, food and housing prices, can cause actual inflation to run either above or below this so-called core rate for long periods. For the past several years, most economists figured that the core rate was stuck at 9% to 10%, kept there by a fruitless scramble...
...state commission report found no difference between the persuasive power of a life sentence and a death sentence. The economic argument, as morally repugnant as the process it supports, is also factually dubious. The costs involved in the long legal battles often accompanying death sentences could very easily exceed those financing a prison term...
...this manner without virtually ensuring a nuclear war, whether through accident, miscalculation, or design. In this regard it is foolish to become involved in a numbers game concerning the quantity of missiles and warheads in the possession of each super-power. The numbers are already so vast they exceed any realm of reason: thus every new weapon added to either stockpile makes all of us less secure...
...expensive and, according to Reardon "unfortunate addendum" to the recent refurbishing of facilities is the current rebuilding of 78-year-old Harvard Stadium. Total project costs will exceed $8 million for the renovation, which is scheduled to be at least partly completed by September 13, the date of the first football game, Robert J. Burbank, project manager for the project, said this week. Years of erosion of steel support beams necessitated the reconstruction, which will include the replacement of beams, installment of new seating and rebuilding of concession stands, restrooms and repairs to all concrete work...
...policy of censorship through terror is well known. Among those who dared to defy this implicit censorship policy are the editor of La Cronica a Salvadoran daily and the Salvadoran correspondent for the Commission on Human Rights and the Salvadoran Catholic Church have produced fatality statistics for 1981 which exceed the body toll...