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...week in the Labor Department's annual report on inflation. The cost of living index in 1973 zoomed upward by 8.8%, the biggest annual advance since 1947. Though fuel oil and coal costs rose a stunning 45%, giving a late but powerful lift to living costs, the main villain throughout last year was food prices, which rose 20%. Meat, poultry and fish climbed by an average of 26%, and bakery products and cereals...
Posted as a consul in South America, in 1910 Casement again investigated the exploitation of rubber, and reported that Amazonian Indians were being as cruelly abused as if their masters had studied sadism in the Congo. This time, though, the villain was an English-owned company. Despite foot dragging back home and prevarication by the Peruvian government, it was forced to moderate its practices. In 1911 Casement was knighted for his effort, though he was now openly convinced that empire, left in the hands of commercial entrepreneurs, inevitably debased and destroyed the primitive communities whose land and labor they controlled...
...Nonsense," expostulated the consulting detective. "I annihilated the Napoleon of crime at the Reichenbach Falls. No, no, Watson, heroes may be summoned from the annals of fiction, but this villain rises from reality. Whoever made those erasures is an intelligent, living, breathing human. Well, living and breathing, anyway...
...Your article about a measure for public financing of presidential campaigns [Dec. 17] sponsored by Senators Kennedy and Mondale portrays Senator James Allen as a villain because of his efforts to scuttle this bill-a bill opposed even by Senators Ervin and Weicker. You can't seem to recognize a piece of hurriedly prepared, half-baked legislation sneakily attached to an important bill that was assured of President Nixon's signature. I believe that Senator Allen deserves a lot of credit for his efforts...
...consumer price index soared more than 8%, a rate of inflation considerably worse than during the Viet Nam War. Food prices, the most troublesome villain, climbed by 20% for the year...