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Insurance companies say they are losing their savings, too. Despite the steep rise in premiums, the industry colors itself a bright red. In ten years, physicians' fees have gone up 39% and hospital costs 92%. Weekly factory wages have risen 42%, boosting lost-income settlements. Typical repair bills have climbed more than 50%. As a result, the average bodily-injury claim is up 31%, the average property-damage claim...
With her son leading the way, Mrs. Gloria Goodman ran across the back yard, down a steep embankment to the edge of a small stream where the boys had been playing. Kenneth was nowhere in sight. But two snarling German shepherds and a stray boxer were. The dogs lunged. Mrs. Goodman kept them at bay with a rake, and Gene scrambled onto the limb of a fallen tree to escape their fanged jaws. "Don't let the dogs get me," he pleaded...
...markets, to be sure, have some excuses-though they almost invariably deny that there is even the smallest price or quality differential between neighborhoods. Overheads are higher in the slums, a result of such things as pilferage and steep insurance costs. There is also less competition, the final arbiter of price. Slum residents, who lack the mobility of suburbanites, are generally stuck with one or two stores-or the choice of going hungry...
Woolf writes of the death of sweet reason that afflicted the Western world during and between the two world wars. The title of this book refers to the Gadarene swine in the Bible, who were possessed of evil spirits and, according to St. Luke, "ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked." The swine, as Woolf sees it, were the Tories and ultranationalists who brought on the first World War, and the fascists and Communists whose fanaticism and civic savagery made a shambles of the peace...
...part of it. The new American male also goes to the opera, masters a few French phrases, perhaps buys an elegant Edwardian suit and tours the Continent-where many of the latest styles, including long hair, originated. Good grooming is the most visible part of it; any investment, however steep, pays off just beyond the hair stylist's door. It is worth noting that, since 1953, the U.S. male has spent more money-and conceivably more time-in the beauty shop. The manufacture of perfumed products for men has risen by 400% since 1950; some colognes are now sold...