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...last year, however, doctors have confirmed 19 cases of the cancer in the U.S. alone, 17 of them in people who worked in plastics plants. There is growing sentiment to ban the use of PVC for containers and plastic wraps for food and drinks; some doctors fear that the compound leaches into the food and could cause cancer...
...Wholesale Price Index in September climbed at a compound annual rate of 7.4%, or slightly less than in August...
Show of Force. Shortly before 8 o'clock, as fleecy pink clouds gave way to a dull sun, motors revved ominously within the prison compound. A motorcade of 15 Jeeps, paddy wagons, buses and police cars wheeled out and off into the traffic, headed for Hoyo de Manzanares. Near that town was a conveniently isolated artillery training facility in rolling, rocky hills. "Orson Welles has a house up here somewhere," remembered one of the reporters trailing the entourage. "It used to be a great place for making westerns." Guardia Civil lined the routes in pairs at intervals and also...
...monitor who was clad head to toe in maroon and gold hoisted me onto a Hyannis-bound charter. Could the bus company have misinterpreted its instructions? Perhaps its idea of The Game of the year between two Irish powers was a little touch football action at the Kennedy compound...
...rest of this year and through the first half of 1976. Prices in that time will probably rise at a 7% to 8% annual rate, a disturbingly rapid pace after so deep a recession as the U.S. suffered in 1973-74, but much better than the 15.4% compound annual rate of inflation the U.S. suffered in July. Unemployment, which fell from 9.2% in May to 8.4% in both July and August, will come down, but painfully slowly. It may well still be above 8% by year's end, and will decline only to 7.5% or a trifle less...