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...LAY-AWAY NOW! A leading economic think tank, and one watched closely by chief inflation-fighter Alan Greenspan, is predicting a significant rise in prices by the end of the year. The inflation rate will jump to between 3 and 4 percent from its current rate of a little over 2 percent, says Anirvan Banerji, research economist at The Center for International Business Cycle Research at Columbia University. Banerji told TIME Daily he's looked at seven indicators and they've been up for the last ten months. The Federal Reserve usually moves to curb the inflation rate by raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS | 8/11/1994 | See Source »

...American presidential candidate has tried to allay our anxiety by showing us how we are all going to get somewhere. McMichael insists that planning and anxiety are almost Siamese twins. Americans, with their city planning, economic planning, estate planning, family planning, with their game plans and saving plans and lay-away plans, would seem to be the most anxious people on earth...

Author: By Rebecca Ostriker, | Title: The There That Is There | 11/3/1981 | See Source »

...Lay-Away Plan. In Culver City, Calif., arrested with a bagful of shoplifted clothes, Dolores June King and Vivian Eggert, expectant mothers, told police: "We are going to the hospital next month to have our babies and we wanted to look nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Lay-Away Plan. In Passaic, N.J., after being arrested for the third time for beating his wife, Allen Irving complained that his 90-day jail sentence would be a "hardship," was told by Magistrate H. Dick Cohen: "We'll make an exception in your case; you can come to jail every Saturday night and stay until Sunday night-for [a total of] 90 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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