Word: price
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Profits of companies whose stocks are included in the Standard & Poor's 500 index will rise about 5%, she forecasts, vs. a flat performance this year but well below the double-digit gains of 1997 and earlier years. Inflation, Reaser thinks, is bottoming out this year, with the Consumer Price Index rising a trifling 1.5%. She expects about 2.4% in 1999--still no cause for deep worry...
Especially when the price of creativity can be a slap back at the teacher. For the past three years, the San Jose, Calif., school district has had Always Running, a memoir of growing up poor and Hispanic, on an optional list for some college-prep reading. Because of its scenes of drug use, sex and gangs, parents were notified and offered alternative works if need be. But this spring a parent demanded that the book be removed from all schools--ignoring the district's challenge process and taking her case to talk radio. The book survived, but now parents have...
...class--fourth-graders--to help carry out the campaign. By Christmas, she and her new charges hope to send enough money to Christian Solidarity to have freed 1,000 Sudanese. While that is but a small number of those believed held in bondage (and the spotlight may raise the price of freedom), it doesn't diminish the spirit of the kids. Says Joshua Hook, 10: "This is a big wrong, and we're helping make it a right." Says classmate Lindy deSpain, 9: "It feels good to know that more people will be coming home for Christmas...
...trusted, local department store in Reading, Pa., and buys the cheapest box she can find. Usually she buys something that's been returned and refurbished, though covered under a new one-year warranty. The machine she selects is invariably last year's model. As such, it has plummeted in price--sometimes as much as 50%. Her machine is hardly obsolete: it does what mine does, though somewhat slower. (Her kids are grown; she has time.) She can browse the Web on a 56-K modem, listen to music on modest speakers, play games, run spreadsheets, and make me feel guilty...
...student's price range," says Bate, who lives in a fourth-floor suite. "Of all the Law School dorms, this is one of the most comfortable...