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...rate of of 12.7%, despite a 1% decrease in the cost of gasoline and only a slight increase in food bills. The sharp price hike was caused largely by the 1.8% rise in housing costs. The latest increase throws into question the Administration's estimate that inflation will tail...
...behind the banks of stadium lights and the New Jersey air fell like volcanic ash on the sunburned crowd. They had come in overheated Plymouths and air-conditioned Buicks, tiny soccer balls and cleats dangling from their mirrors, Budweiser coolers nestled on the front-seat vinyl. The trail of tail lights had meandered slowly into the asphalt moat that ringed the stadium. A voice had announced that the game would be delayed because hundreds of fans were trapped in Lincoln Tunnel...
...tale in office construction is entirely different. Rather than being in a recessionary tail spin, commercial building has embarked on what may turn out to be its greatest boom ever. The burst of construction is being fed, in part, by the growth of white-collar jobs. During the past five years, the U.S. work force has risen dramatically to 106 million, vs. 95 million in 1975. Since much of the growth has taken place in the service and financial sectors, the demand for office space has outstripped the surplus supply created by the last big building bonanza...
...feel around the abdominal area for tumors, which may be the real problem. He will also probe for pain around the kidneys and explore the rectum (purpose: to look for growths and check the condition of the coccyx, the lowermost four vertebrae, which are the evolutionary remnants of a tail). Finally the doctor will test the patient's reflexes with the time-honored taps on the knee and ankle, measure the muscles and test sensation with pinpricks...
...with no characters to inhabit and little feeling for the music. But the songs are mere interludes; the movie's gigantic "production number" is a ten-minute chase sequence that has Aykroyd and Belushi careering into Chicago with most of the local and state police force on their tail. The Blues Brothers is a demolition symphony that works with the cold efficiency of a Moog synthesizer gone sadistic...