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...center of the debate has been the drive to extend the economic revolution from the countryside to the cities. Moves like the sudden dropping of price controls have put unwelcome stress on household budgets. Food prices soared by a previously unheard-of 30% last year, and the overall inflation rate jumped to 9%. Meanwhile, opportunities for increased wealth have created fertile ground for corruption. Bureaucrats have taken kickbacks from enterprises in return for supplying them goods at subsidized prices. The products are then resold on the open market for hefty profits. Other officials have installed family members in businesses that...
...only heard of one of them before, that Stacy Staysak or somethin'. * Someone told me she played in Farmer's Daughter. Celebrities are not unheard of here. Every year, Wilmington has an Azalea Parade, and one year they had Buddy Ebsen. He was on Beverly Hillbillies. I loved that program...
...should do for as many hours a day as your body can stand. But what if, after all that effort, the book is still headed for terminal inactivity on the remainder shelf? Hear now the tale of Callan Pinckney, whose deep-muscle-exercise regimen hit best-seller lists an unheard- of 14 months after it was published...
...almost unheard of to go 9-0 in the Ivy League," Co-Captain Jeff Levy said. "The Ivy League is far and away the strongest [fencing] league in the country...
What we have here is a sampling error of unheard of proportions. If, in my high school statistics class, I turned in such a poor poll, with such a poorly worded question, I would have failed. The effect a question can have on both the response rate and the nature of the response cannot be overemphasized. The council's referendum is proof. Its results are immensely uncertain, with a large bias favoring those who want the council involved. While 59 (the percentage of "Yes" votes on question two) is approximately the upper bound on the percent of undergraduates who want...