Word: paces
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...goods, higher costs on the mainland tend to show up on store shelves at Wal-Mart and other major retailers around the world. The U.S. Commerce Department says prices for imports from China rose at a 4.1% annual rate during the first half of 2007. That was the fastest pace since the U.S. began tracking Chinese import prices in 2003, and was well above the current U.S. inflation rate of about...
...some lawmakers like Virginia Senator Jim Webb, this double standard is unconscionable. The former Navy Secretary and highly decorated Vietnam vet is trying to goad Congress into updating the G.I. Bill, whose benefits have failed to keep pace with the rising cost of a college education, by providing full tuition to a state university plus a $1,000 monthly stipend to all veterans who have served a total of two years in Iraq or Afghanistan since 9/11--reserve forces included. His rationale for extending equal benefits to National Guard veterans: "Same battlefield, same soldier...
...generations, U.S. house price appreciation largely tracked inflation. But around 1995, home prices began rising at an unprecedented pace. The boom created wealth throughout the economy, but also created risks that spread far beyond the housing market. Here...
...legal system also is not keeping pace with forensic investigation methods. There have been several conflicting appellate opinions on warrantless cell phone searches and the law is not "settled" at this point, ACLU's Calabrese says. Just as emerging fingerprint and DNA technologies were challenged, cell phone evidence is under scrutiny. In the meantime, all of us - innocent citizen and criminals alike - continue to pump ever more data into cell phones and PDAs, those indispensable companions that have so much to say about...
This year Mexico as a whole has logged more than 1,300 drug-related murders, well on pace to eclipse the 2,000 of 2006. The atrocities would seem more familiar south of Baghdad than south of the border: mass executions, contract shootings carried out at funerals and ghastly videotaped beheadings posted on the Internet while victims' heads are tossed into the streets. Mexicans have long held the view that drug traffickers kill only one another, but the latest surge in violence is claiming a broader range of victims, including police, businesspeople, journalists and politicians. "Now people realize these animals...