Word: rung
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Before the scare, the American cattle industry had been doing well. That was true at nearly every level in the complex chain that starts at the bottom rung with the cantankerous collection of cow-calf ranchers, who sell to feedlot operators, who in turn sell to giant corporate packers like Cargill Meat Sector. After several tough years, profits suddenly exploded this fall as the wholesale price of beef soared to a record high of $120 per 100 lbs.--a 50% increase in one year...
...addition, a Russian television crew spent yesterday afternoon in Cambridge, conducting interviews and videotaping the bells being rung...
...government program instituted in 1999 to stimulate the domestic economy by getting thrifty citizens to borrow and spend has been too successful. Today, every working South Korean has on average four credit cards?and some 2.2 million people are behind on their payments, having rung up a staggering total of about $100 billion in credit-card debt. That's $2,000 in debt for every Korean, an amount equal to roughly a quarter of the country's annual economic output...
This is a remarkable statement, no less so because it's true. Hip-hop has oozed into so many areas of culture that rapping is now like a mail-room job at CAA, the first rung on a potentially prodigious financial ladder. In this light, Jay-Z's retirement is the ultimate act of conspicuous consumption. He has climbed high enough that he can afford to stop...
...only was Dick a remarkable scholar with a tremendous influence on his students—scores of former students have rung up—but he was a marvellous father and grandfather, not just to his own grandchildren but also to mine,” said Neustadt’s wife, Shirley Williams, who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain’s House of Lords...