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Even with a slide in output of goods and services, inflation is not likely to wane. The Administration has reckoned that living costs for the year would rise an average of 6.5%. But last week the Government reported that in June consumer prices continued to rise at the high May annual rate-7.4%. The main factor: higher price tags on processed foods such as dairy items and canned goods. Further dimming prospects for price relief, U.S. Steel, the industry leader, unexpectedly announced last week that it would raise prices on structural shapes and tin mill products...
...1940s wane, so do the bands...
...Gandhi believed her Congress Party machine would believed the vote, as it had done so often before. Sanjay was also convinced that his crowds-dutifully rounded up by party flunkies-were made up of genuine supporters. But when the balloting began, says a friend, the family confidence began to wane. "You could hear it in their conversation. They started wondering...
...attitude that seems the antithesis of the former awe. That awe has given way to a new skepticism, the adulation to heckling. To the bewilderment of much of the scientific community, its past triumphs have been downgraded, and popular excitement over new achievements, like snapshots from Mars, seems to wane with the closing words of the evening news. Sci-Tech's promises for the future, far from being welcomed as harbingers of Utopia, now seem too often to be threats. Fears that genetic tinkering might produce a Doomsday Bug, for example, bother many Americans, along with dread that...
...moved to the jurisdiction of Radcliffe College recently at the request of Harvard--it has always been inextricably tied to Radcliffe, with Graham serving both as dean of the Institute and vice-president of Radcliffe College. But as the influence of Radcliffe as an undergraduate institution has begun to wane, the national prestige and respect accorded the Institute and Library has waxed, perhaps pointing to a continued role for Radcliffe in higher education with or without merger...