Word: percent
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...Because over 85 percent of smokers begin smoking before age 20 years, and some evidence suggests that the proportion of those under 20 years of age who smoke is sensitive to taxes, higher taxes may decrease the number of individuals who become addicted," according to the report...
WASHINGTON--Wholesale prices surged I percent in February, matching the January increase and marking the worst back-to-back news on inflation in nearly eight years, the government said yesterday...
...identical increases in the Labor Department's Producer Price Index mean that prices one stop short of the retail level are 12.6 percent higher, on an annual rate, than at the start...
...since March and April of 1981 have prices risen so sharply for two months in a row. Wholesale prices rose 4.0 percent last year...
After the January inflation report, which included a 0.6 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the largest in two years, many economists dismissed it as at least a partial aberration and predicted only a moderate 0.4 climb in February...