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...shortage in the market. This drives up grain prices, which has a direct bearing on livestock feed-lot operators and eventually on consumers." Other commodities are being similarly afflicted; for instance, skyrocketing lumber prices have been blamed partly on a heavy demand for railroad flatcars to haul wood from mill to housing sites...
...Mill Valley, Calif...
...most reasonable objection to pornographic films is to their sordidly chauvinistic, exhibitionistic portrayal of women. Depiction of the female body as existing solely for male satisfaction makes much chewier grist for one's moralistic mill than mere nudity or sex. Unfortunately, many self-styled guardians of the public taste seem to flail aimlessly at the naked flesh without real attention to the way it -- and the viewer -- are being exploited...
...varying interpretations, but one is simply wrong. Ash claimed that the rate of inflation is only 2.9% "today," but Government figures show that prices rose at a 6% annual rate in the first quarter, according to the most comprehensive measure. The article was written in the White House publicity mill, which called the inaccuracy a "typing error...
...leaders also agreed to crack down on the prison rumor mill. "Before," said Rudy, "if a guy saw a Stone [Black P. Stone] with a knife, he'd go and tell the Ds [Disciples]." Added Andrew ("Candy Blue") Brooks, boss of the Vice Lords: "Now when a dude makes that kind of charge, he is brought before the leaders. Now the rumor man has to validate his stories." Finally, a drive was organized by the leaders to dispose of all "shanks" (knives). "What we have here now," Earl Moore said, "is a sort of United Nations to settle disagreements...