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...week. They were shocked to find that the Chinese have hiked their prices up to or even above world market scales. Rugs were up 200% over a year ago, and antiques and jade are going for 40% to 300% more than last year. The price of mao-tai, the potent millet liquor, has soared to $28 a bottle-more than twice the price of Chivas Regal...
This revolutionary formula brought potent results. Saigon withdrew at the first upsurge in NLF militancy, and wide tracts of rural South Vietnam began to implement massive reforms under liberation force leadership. Diem and his handful of allies, trapped in the cities, began to totter...
Strong Brandeis pitching stifled the usually potent Crimson batters, never allowing Harvard to score more than one run in any inning and giving up only five hits all afternoon...
...willing to abort should be allowed or convined to undergo amniocentesis. If the procedure becomes very common, the discovery of a handicapped child could easily amount to an edict for abortion. The race-linkage of some defects makes members of those races understandably concerned lest amniocentesis become a potent tool of genocide in the hands of a profession dominated by white upper-class anglo-Americans...
...year earlier ranging from 11% for General Electric to 47.5% for International Paper. Such increases will tempt union chiefs to demand outsize pay raises in important negotiations this year. If they win, the economy could suffer both demand-pull and cost-push inflation at the same time−a potent recipe for disaster...