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...February at the finished goods level, increases earlier in the production process were more moderate. Prices at the intermediate level rose 0.5 percent while the cost of crude goods dipped 0.1 percent after two months of increases above 3 percent. A loaf of bread is an example of an item at the finished goods level, flour at the intermediate level and wheat at the crude level...
Although the public opening of the exhibit was slightly delayed because an item in the collection was held up at customs in Detroit, the rest of the collection went up as planned. The plans are being shown in the west wing of the Fogg through the middle of March...
...Under enormous pressure to dispose quickly of a complicated issue, the council demonstrated its confusion and ineptitude. Vellucci voted against his own proposal for negotiations. Danehy amended not the deal with the developer, but a line item estimate in an appraisal report. Graham totally lost track of what she was voting on. Overall, most councilors showed a low level of understanding of real estate economics, and therefore were unprepared to negotiate aggressively on behalf of the city...
...actor's equal. Political scientist Richard Neustadt points out that "Ike came into office with the status of a genuine national hero and merely had to preserve that aura. Reagan came in only with what he had on his back and had to create his stature." One indispensable item Reagan carried was a quiver of messages and images, simple but sharp, honed over his many years as a conservative advocate. His great skill was in making a few of those arrows stick in the electorate's consciousness...
...reminded of the continuities in the past two centuries of German art. Some are not altogether welcome. That gentle, scholarly neoclassicist Johann Tischbein, the friend and portraitist of Goethe, would have been aghast to see what German state culture in the 1930s got up to -- and yet the first item in this show, his elaborate drawing entitled The Power of Man, 1786, showing a hunter and his young companion on horseback dragging home the carcasses of a lion and a huge eagle, predicts many of the elements of Nazi classicism if not its overweening vulgarity. The taste for earnest, portentous...