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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.
There's a "Heroes" column about the reporter at Chicago magazine who exposed the Beardstown Ladies for inflating the returns of their investment club.
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.
8572 and then inflating the Canadian value to a 2000 Canadian dollar values a state cost of $2,111 for blindness was estimated.
However, men with normal PSA and DRE results did not undergo biopsy, thus potentially inflating estimates for specificity.