Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Financial Vice President Hale Champion said yesterday the library construction cost will run only slightly over its budget--"maybe $30,000 over" an $8-million budget--despite rampant inflation and a two-month ironworker strike...
Like every other country I saw in Africa, the problems of underdevelopment are rampant in Angola. There is hardly any industry and most manufactured goods are imported; Luanda for instance, a city of a half-million, has no bottling or canning facility. There is one doctor for every 10,000 people in Angola; there are 3000 college students in a population of five and a half million; the per-capita income is less than $500 a year...
Even before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries began jacking up oil prices in 1973, prices for other raw materials were breaking records. Spurred by shortages and rampant speculation in commodities markets, prices for such staples as copper, rubber, cocoa, coffee, platinum and cotton rose sharply; some had doubled or tripled by mid-1974. But after the oil crisis helped push the West into recession, commodities prices tumbled, in some cases to a third of what they had been at the peak. Copper, for example, rose nearly 300% in 17 months, peaking at $1.40 per Ib. a year ago; this...
...Ohio Guardsmen. They were killed because they, along with others, were protesting our incursion into Cambodia. What do we have to show for these five years of more war in Indochina except thousands of American soldiers killed, 1 million Cambodians killed or wounded, hundreds of thousands of refugees, rampant inflation in our land, unemployment and destroyed dominoes...
Jeeves, another gin stengah. A treasure, Jeeves is. Been with the club since the flood. Where was I? Ah, yes. Books. Haven't read but one since Oxbridge. Burke's Peerage. Breeders' guide to British nobility. Smashing heraldry: gules argent, lions rampant, bars sinister, all that drill. Snob's bible, they call it-the envious ones. For those of us who can trace our lineage back to Ethelred the Unready, it's-well, it's sort of a-er -bible. Meaning no disrespect, padre. Since the Empire's gone to the demnition bowwows...