Word: runaways
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...Crimson has never lost the GBCs, and with two runaway dual-meet victories and a couple of national class runners, Harvard will be tough to beat...
...determined Williams team managed to keep the game close, trailing by only a few baskets for most of the game. Strong performances from Williams' Dancewicz twins, distinguishable only by the different numbers on their backs, kept the game from becoming a Harvard runaway...
...runaway price rises will fan inflation in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. Affected are not only the price of gasoline and heating oil but also the cost of thousands of products made from petrochemicals?goods ranging from fertilizers and laundry detergents to panty hose and phonograph records. Oil price hikes will bear on apartment rents and the price of food brought to stores by gasoline-burning trucks. The price boosts act as a kind of gigantic tax, siphoning from the pockets of consumers money that would otherwise be used to buy non-oil goods and services, thus depressing production...
...Chicago, the poisons seeping into the Love Canal. The frustrations of economic theory were revealed by the inability of the disciples of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist whose market-manipulating philosophies have dominated policymaking since the 1950s and 1960s, to deal with the stagflation realities of laggard growth, runaway prices and receding productivity in the post-industrial...
...imagine a time when art will not be either. It has happened before, and can easily happen again. Those who pronounce on art's power as a hedge against inflation-as a commodity that rides the inflationary spiral, always ahead of money-tend not to mention that when runaway inflation lays waste an economy, as it did in Weimar Germany, the value of art collapses...