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...cuts are an admission that the industry's pricing has been sending shoppers down other aisles. "The rise in cereal prices has been absolutely outrageous," says Patricia Cromie, a lawyer and mother of two in Allendale, New Jersey. "I can spend $4 and change for just one box and have it gone in less than a week." Since World War II, no food category has had more price increases than cereal, which easily outdistanced the rate of inflation for groceries (see chart). But consumers began balking in 1994, angered by relentless price hikes. Last year sales of cereal began...
...state investigators, caught up for weeks in the frustrating experience of trying to square the past 18 years of Kaczynski's life with the Unabomber's attacks, are celebrating the discovery of the manifesto amid a mother lode of incriminating evidence. Last Thursday, when the Justice Department named New Jersey First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary to lead the team that will prosecute Kaczynski, the hot speculation was over whether the initial prosecution would take place in Cleary's state, where the Unabomber murdered advertising executive Thomas Mosser in 1994, or in California, where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray...
...N.B.A. and the finest player who ever lived. No way this team loses any of the four play-off series it needs to win to reclaim its title from the Houston Rockets, who borrowed it for two seasons while Michael Jordan shagged fly balls. "The Bulls," says New Jersey Nets forward Jayson Williams, "are like Clint Eastwood in a western, Arnold Schwarzenegger in an action movie. You can shoot at them, you may even wound them. But guess who's gonna be standing there when the credits roll?" No way da Bulls lose...
...told me he thought the Bulls could win 70. I bow to no one in my admiration for Michael, having coached him, but I didn't think the Bulls were all that deep. Plus, I've coached Rodman. So I bet O'Koren the biggest steak dinner in New Jersey that the Bulls wouldn't win 70. Guess I'm buying...
...million, and in Tunica, Mississippi, 10,000 people with an annual payroll of $220 million. These jobs have helped reduce the demand on state and local governments for social-service assistance. Since 1992 Tunica has experienced a 29% drop in the number or residents receiving welfare payments. In New Jersey the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program was cut in half during the 10 years following the introduction of casino gaming in that state. The bottom line is that despite the false and misleading claims of its critics, the gaming entertainment industry has made significant contributions--both economic...