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After five months of decline, which brought the rise in consumer prices down from a peak of 18.2% in January, February and March to 8.7% in August, the inflation, rate did a power turn in September and hurtled right back up into double digits. During the month, prices rose by 1%, which was the highest increase since June and translates into a compound annual inflation rate of 12.7%. The surge was led by food prices, which are climbing partly as a result of the damage wrought by the summer drought on crops and livestock herds. The cost of cars also...
Some of the ratings are a bit obvious. Since the average daily population of a cemetery, not to mention the total daily population and the peak instant population, are low, the department rated it the most desirable non-profit use for a neighborhood...
Scalise has said all season that his goal was to peak for the tournaments, and it seems that the team goes into this morning's semi-final game with Brown right on schedule. The third-seeded Bruins knocked off sixth-ranked Penn, 4-0, yesterday, to earn another shot at Harvard, who beat them, 2-1, in Cambridge earlier this season...
Rude Boy, filmed in 1978 at the peak of punk, uses an extreme of European minimalist filmmaking technique, allowing little storytelling. The film offers, also, the most accomplished interaction between documentary footage and staged events since Medium Cool, although Clash fans aren't likely to care much. The band members fought distribution for a while, sensing that they might be revealed in an awkward stage of their career...
Only a few buyers will actually miss Iran's supplies. Under the Shah, the country was the second largest OPEC producer after Saudi Arabia; but lack of maintenance, spare parts and skilled workers since the revolution cut production from a 1974 peak of 6 million bbl. a day to 1.5 million. Of this, only 700,000 bbl. were being exported. Still, customers like Rumania, India and Spain, which have continued to receive shipments on the order of 150,000 bbl. a day, will now have to turn to different sources for their crude...