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...most of them in Central and Eastern Europe. On the street, there is a widespread belief that E.U. accession will drive prices way up. Panic buying and hoarding started with salt and sugar in the Baltics; Poland followed with sugar, construction materials and cars. In the Czech Republic, it has been sugar, rice and, of all things, haircuts, with people pre-paying their trips to the salon. What's behind the hysteria? E.U. accession will bring about changes in taxation, tariffs and price support. This means that the price of dairy products in Poland, for example, could rise...
Rationing hit a new tightness last night when the liberal teaspoonful of sugar was reduced to a pinch in House dining halls. Cereals, fruits, even coffee which had previously been granted at least a spoonful will now be sugared from salt-cellar-like shakers...
Atwood is white-haired and would be almost grandmotherly if her sharp wit did not the periodically break the spell. In the past few weeks, she has traveled through Japan, San Diego and Denver to promote her new book, and the day before coming to Cambridge, she was in Salt Lake City. Atwood says she enjoys her whirlwind speaking tours, but advises that “you have to take your vitamins.” But if she’s tired, she’s not letting on. Today, fresh from a reading at MIT, she exults that...
After ten minutes of grumbling, those errant Expressions-goers left the aisles for home, and the dancers took the stage to resume shakin’ it like a salt shaker...
Surely, such charges coming from a trial lawyer lobby group should be taken with a grain of salt. But whether they come out of sheer special-interest politicking—which would come as no surprise—or simply misguided efforts to curb rising health care expenses, caps on malpractice lawsuits are unfair to the victims and undermine an effective jury system...