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July's stunning 15.4% annual rise in the consumer price index dramatized anew a serious flaw in the way the Government measures inflation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the consumer price index on the basis of the price of a variety of goods and services that an average family buys during a month. Housing costs account for 25.8% of the CPI, since that is how much of its budget a typical family spends on shelter. A sharp jump in mortgage rates, such as has occurred in the past few months, can thus have an important effect...
Clubhouse sharpies quickly spotted a serious flaw. Since the standings of the prestrike season were, effectively, wiped clean, all 26 major league clubs resumed play on an equal footing. The New York Mets, 17 and 34 before the strike, spent a few heady days in first place after the season resumed, and found their new lease on life appealing. But the Cincinnati Reds, just one half-game behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West when the walkout started, suddenly found themselves running neck and neck with the San Diego Padres, who were 12½ games back...
...Ohio's construction is a seven-year ordeal of mismanagement. Certain components were made from understrength steel, and the replacement cost was nearly $1 million. The sub contains 117,000 especially important welds; 2,772 were botched. Rewelding cost $2.6 million. Perhaps the most grievous flaw was in the sub's engine. Turbine blades were a few critical microns too large; they scraped their housing and cracked. It required $3 million to put the blades right. Electric Boat insists that it was not at fault, since the turbine was built by General Electric directly for the Government. Indeed...
Your article states that "no one knows the cause of Crohn's disease, although researchers suspect that a virus or flaw in the body's immune system may be involved" [June 22]. If "externalized anger and rage" can cause an Adolf Hitler to act as he did, if it can cause men to attempt to assassinate Presidents and Popes, and shoot blank cartridges at Queens, why cannot "internalized anger and rage" cause the bowels to churn themselves into inflammatory masses, coronary arteries to turn into morbid spasms and bronchial tubes to go into asthmatic constrictions? There are many...
...because the Army was slaughtering innocents in Vietnam, fighting a sick and evil war that no one with a conscience could support. The same facts that led Fallows to avoid the draft lead many to oppose its revival; his unwillingness to address those issues is the book's chief flaw...