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...customers' portfolios, instead of stocks. "Some people have bought kilos' worth of diamonds," says Antwerp Diamond Cutter Sylvain Zucker. Disgusted by the speculation, New York's Tiffany & Co. ran a newspaper ad in March telling customers: "Diamonds are too high. We suggest you look before you leap...
...variety of inflation to millions of consumers. Shoppers' beefs will soon get even louder. Last week the Government reported that the February Wholesale Price Index for finished goods, which foreshadows retail prices, jumped at an annual rate of 14%, nearly double the January rise and the biggest monthly leap since November 1974. Food, which did more than anything else to push January consumer-price increases back to a 10% annual rate, propelled the February wholesale surge, climbing 2.9%, the biggest monthly boost in more than three years...
...mrdrunga pattering becomes a solid roar. Alongside the altar a devotee waves a large white-haired brush. The kartals crash as devotees bound to and fro, somehow avoiding a collision. They hop and leap, pony tails bobbing, mouths agape, chanting, "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare..." The energy ripples through the congregation. A man violently rocks from his waist up, glazed eyes bobbing above a limber neck. A swaying woman, dressed in a sarong, catches a red carnation. She closes her eyes, smells the flower, grins and flings it to someone else. A woman devotee bounces with...
Women have the same rights as men in the Hare Krishna movement. Garuda's wife is a priest and has the same religious powers as any male priest. However, women usually do not leap and jump directly in front of the altar because they may "agitate" the male devotees, Garuda says. Many of the women dance behind the men and watch over their children during the aroti, signifying a somewhat different role, even within the movement...
...more positive note, several Crimson tracksters turned in strong individual performances. In the pole vault, Geoff Stiles had some trouble adjusting to the runway but still ran away with the event as he soared to a 15-ft. 8-in. leap...