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...hotel, mall, and condominium complex has raised fears among neighborhood businessmen that they will be priced out of the market. Already, local shop owners are reporting large rent increases and they fear that costs will skyrocket once the upscale stores in the Charles project commence business...
...economic war as inflation has subsided and the unemployment rate has leveled off. But the current respite promises to be only temporary; the Guinness-proportion budget deficits insure that as the jobless rate creeps back down to a respectable level, the consumer price index will once again skyrocket...
...extension now under construction. Councilor David A. Wylie said last night that the owner of the company is probably trying to hold on to as much land in the area as possible, because when the subway extension opens, "his buildings will be on prime land and their value will skyrocket...
...More alarmingly. Duncan Poore, a researcher at Oxford, has pointed out that loss of a large food sustaining area through such deterioration is "an important cause of political unrest and instability." Shrinking farmland area results in food shortages, and the declining number of trees makes the cost of wood skyrocket. In some areas of Africa, the price of fuel wood used to cook a meal actually exceeds the cost of the food...
...Decontrols oil--prices skyrocket...