Word: runaways
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JENNIFER (RUNAWAY BRIDE) WILBANKS...
...RUNAWAY INFLATION...
CHARGED. JENNIFER WILBANKS, 32, "runaway bride" from Duluth, Ga., who fled town during a jog in late April, days before 600 guests were due to attend her wedding; with lying to authorities about having been kidnapped and sexually assaulted; by a grand jury in Gwinnett County...
...stock-market rally that began more than three years ago is as robust as ever. The stampede, spurred at first by a sharp drop in interest rates, started on Friday, Aug. 13, 1982, with a twelve-point rise in the closely watched Dow Jones industrial average, to 788. The runaway Dow took only six months to close above the 1100 mark for the first time ever and just two more to break 1200. Though the market slowed to a more dawdling pace for more than a year, it came roaring back again last spring. The Dow zipped past...
...Chinese outlook, TIME's Pacific Board invited its first guest economist from the People's Republic: Huan Xiang, the director general of Peking's Center for International Studies. Huan reported that Deng's reforms have been a tonic for the Chinese economy, but its runaway 12% growth rate is a bit more than the country can handle. The quality of many manufactured goods is suffering, and inflation is a disturbing 8%. A flood of imports has created a record trade deficit of more than $4 billion this year. Said Huan: "We have been on a spree of building too much...