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Wholesale food prices rose 1.2 percent last month, the steepest increase in 13 months. They had risen 1.1 percent in January...
...increase was paced by the steepest increase in food prices in a year, the largest rise in energy prices in two years and sharply higher costs in a variety of other categories as well...
...Producer Price Index for finished goods had risen 4 percent during 1988, the steepest climb in seven Years and nearly double the 2.2 percent increase posted in 1987. Many private economists expect further increases this year, although not at the double-digit levels that plagued the nation...
With the after-effects of last summer's drought still in evidence, food prices one stop short of grocery store shelves were up 1.1 percent last month, the steepest increase since a 1.5 percent rise in January...
...optimum cutting method. This, says Stewartt, is really "a mining operation, a one-time extraction of resources." Valley walls too steep to walk on have been scraped to bare earth. Acreage bulldozed for shopping malls looks like this. Until these ravaged uplands reseed themselves -- which on the steepest slopes simply may not happen -- erosion is inevitable, and the most reliable yield, says Forester Morrison in disgust, will be "sustained sediment" in the streams that drain them. We head eastward to a landing field near Mount Rainier National Park...