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...course, the Lithuanians may find themselves in a bit of a financial pinch for a while if they have to borrow all that money. But they, too, can take a lesson from the Americans, who stopped caring about puny $34 billion deficits long...
...felt the pinch more keenly than heating-oil customers. During the brutal cold snap last month, when temperatures hovered in the single digits even in parts of the Sunbelt, fuel oil was in such demand that some distributors ran dry. The clamor for supply pushed prices up as high as $1.50 per gal., a 50% increase in one month...
Consumers felt the pinch almost at once as some wholesale vegetable prices tripled. Orange-juice prices were unlikely to rise anywhere near as much, thanks to a large crop in Brazil and normal production in California and Mexico, which escaped the freeze. Nonetheless, traders on the New York Cotton Exchange last week drove the price of a futures contract for January delivery of frozen orange-juice concentrate to $1.61 per lb., up more than 25% in two weeks...
...socking the ball--they're hitting those homers, over the wall." They had perennial losing pitchers like Pete Falcone, Bob Apodaca and Skip Lockwood. They had young, exciting players with goofy grins and exotic names like Mookie Wilson and Hubie Brooks. They had Rusty Staub, the league's fattest pinch-hitter.(Staub was especially fun to have around. When your friend had to retrieve the ball from the bush you could yell, "Quick, you've got a shot at second base! Rusty's running...
Whether deliberate or not, Bush seems to have developed a new pattern of reaction for these events. His calls to a dozen heads of state and his orders to ambassadors and military commanders set in motion literally hundreds of probes and pressures to pinch off the terrorist acts, perhaps the most comprehensive network ever stitched together so quickly and so quietly. That is much harder work than going to war, and the returns are not yet in. The use of force may still be the only effective answer. Bush's exercise of power is another experiment in the new world...