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8572 and then inflating the Canadian value to a 2000 Canadian dollar values a state cost of $2,111 for blindness was estimated.
Probably inflating his own role, KSM says he and a small group of colleagues, including Yousef and Wali Khan, were among the earliest advocates of attacking the United States.
The NYT front notes that the price of oil, which has nearly doubled since last winter, is inflating gas, heating, and airline ticket prices.
Doctorow novel" (David Remnick, The New Yorker ). "This book is to 'true crime' stories what War and Peace is to most war novels" (Garry Wills, the New York Review of Books ). The major complaint: too many digressions, inflating the book to 800-plus pages.
In the Wall Street Journal , Francine Prose accuses the curators of inflating the designer's import with implausible claims that he was influenced by Yeats and Kandinsky.