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Again, with Celebration there is the tendency to inflate the ordinary into the extraordinary, as if the presence of Disney raised the ante, somehow.
The paper also goes front-page with word that GM plans to recall more than one million Cadillacs, Chevrolets and Pontiacs because their air bags can inflate without a crash.
Foreign lenders have been willing to provide money only at very high interest rates (recently nearly triple world market rates)--and fears that the government would try to inflate away its debt, or simply default on it, led to interest rates on that (ruble-denominated) debt of as high as 150 percent.
Additionally, some infants with inaccurate gestational ages may remain in the dataset despite trimming, which would tend to inflate values for percentiles above the median.
The reason is the fear that, for the purposes of reapportionment and federal revenue distribution, the techniques will help Democrats artificially inflate the numbers of traditionally Democratic minorities and city dwellers, who are hard to reach by traditional head-counting methods.