Word: repeat
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...rosily predicts only 10.4% inflation this year, but its 1979 forecast of 7.4% price rises causes doubts about the reliability of the White House crystal ball. Most private analysts see prices increasing at about 11% this year, assuming that a mild economic downturn occurs. Without any recession, inflation may repeat last year's 13%. Reacting to the worry that worse economic news is yet to come, bond prices last week slumped dramatically and yields rose to levels even higher than those set after the Federal Reserve's credit tightening last October...
...either cynical or naive. His legacy of more than two decades includes the usual sweetheart deals, payoffs, public loafing and school financial mismanagement bordering on criminal, besides a panoply of extravagant, unbuildable public works and a sorry record of getting the federal share. Mayor Byrne was not elected to repeat the past and is not afraid to face the future...
...growing number of observers who are unhappy with the current system take a pragmatic view of changing it. They do not want to repeat the mistake of the reformers who drastically curtailed the power of party leaders and Government officials without adequately considering the consequences. There are distinct advantages to a more open system, however few people take advantage of it. Says Jonathan Moore, director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard: "We have a very flexible, very pluralistic system with a lot of freedom of choice and diversity within...
...British ordered the withdrawal of 4,500 soldiers and 12,000 camp followers from Kabul. A week later, the sole survivor of the march, a field surgeon named Brydon, staggered into Jalalabad on the way to the Khyber Pass. The present generation of rebel tribesmen are hardly equipped to repeat such a feat. But, as a former U.S. Ambassador to Kabul, Robert Neumann, has observed, "Foreign invaders have found it easier to march into Afghanistan than to march...
Although the Clamshell convention took no official position on CDAS plans for a May 24 repeat of the occupation attempt, Nella LaRosa, a member of the Boston Clamshell group, said "the results of the weekend would certainly indicate support for that idea...