Word: stickering
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Pakistanis have been grumbling about rising inflation for more than a year now, but in the past few months the sticker shock has grown much worse. Wheat prices have jumped by more than 20% since November, driven up by rising global prices as well as local hoarding ahead of the election and wheat smuggling into neighboring Afghanistan. The price of the gas that many Pakistanis use to cook with has also skyrocketed. January's inflation rate was nearly 12%, the highest in almost three years...
...hand. Hadfield said CrimsonReading employees used the scanner for two days this semester and gathered about 20 percent of the ISBNs for this semester’s courses. But Staff said that even the scanner has limitations—it cannot read ISBNs on used books because the used sticker covers up the original identification number, for instance. CrimsonReading is also using other methods to collect the numbers, including submissions from students and software written by UC representative Michael R. Ragalie ’09 that automatically scans course syllabi for ISBNs, according to Hadfield. CrimsonReading has expanded its operations...
...Democrats’ inability to articulate not only the minor policies they advocate, but also the major ideals that they represent—or at least should represent—has real and pernicious political and social consequences. The bumper-sticker talking points of modern Republican stump issues—economic freedom, national security, family values—have, for several years now, dominated our national discourse and so demanded that any new policy justify itself in conservative terms that are inherently hostile to a robust progressive agenda...
...That sounds more like a bumper sticker than a platform, and it's not likely to be enough as the primary season heads forward into more states where voters are looking for real answers. It's still the economy, and no one can afford to be stupid...
...Clinton (for his wife) and newly popular cult hero Chuck Norris (for Mike Huckabee), most Iowans came out not to celebrity-watch but to ensure that the candidates addressed the issues facing a troubled nation. They asked questions--often worthy of a doctoral defense--and refused to accept bumper-sticker answers...