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...price increases have mainly been at the wholesale level. Since November, when the severity of the damage became evident, Procter & Gamble has pushed up wholesale prices for its Folgers brand from $2.53 to $3.95 per lb. Many grocery stores expect prices to jump more than $1 per lb. during the next month...
...authoritative, I've-studied-this-for-years lead sentence? Please, God, let me discover an apt quotation from someone other than Samuel Johnson. You have to sound as if you knew it all along. You have to shape your column too--mostly Doric, a Corinthian fluting when they least expect it. It's work. Whatever the others say, it's work...
...stand. Some observers wonder what the children have to gain in their challenge, since dozens of the preceding wills also slighted them. They claim their fight will benefit their father's philanthropic interests, which were dramatically undercut only in the last will. But the speculation is that they really expect a settlement offer to forestall years of legal delays. Meanwhile, Judge Lambert has asked for the jury's patience as they examine this complex test of wills, in which "we are all working hard." Shoveling dirt can be hard work indeed, and it is expected to take more than...
...known about the brutal reprisals taken against the partisans by his army unit. But while the President mentioned a 1948 recommendation by the War Crimes Commission that Waldheim be prosecuted for his actions, he added, "I would not dare to file an indictment in a regular court. Do not expect & verdict from...
...suspense should be over in little more than two months, by which time the Justices are expected to hand down their decision. Most court watchers expect that if the law is struck down, the grounds will be narrow. The precedents are so unclear, the implications of any broad new rule so uncharted, and popular or legal consensus on the wisest course so undeveloped that small, tentative steps appear more advisable than bold strides. --By Richard Lacayo. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington