Carolyn Gurtz, a 59-year-old homemaker from Gaithersburg, Md., captured the $1 million grand prize Tuesday in the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel.
MUSCAT/DUBAI: Annual inflation in Oman, one of six Gulf oil producers, surged above 10% this year for the first time in at least 18 years, highlighting the cost of being pegged to the ailing dollar as food prices soared.
Consumer inflation rose a modest 0.3 percent in March, but that's still troubling because food and energy prices continue climbing even as many economists think that the U.S. economy is in recession.
LAC MEETINGS SCHEDULED The 2008 Orange County Public Schools Special Education Local Advisory Committee (LAC) will meet at the Taylor Education Administration Complex in Room 178 at 1 p.m. on April 17. Parents, teachers and interested parties of a special needs child are invited to attend.
MUSCAT/DUBAI, April 13 - Annual inflation in Oman, one of six Gulf oil producers, surged above 10 percent this year for the first time in at least 18 years, highlighting the cost of being pegged to the ailing dollar as food prices soared.
It's enough to make you diet. Supermarkets are again raising prices to cope with the worst food inflation the nation has seen in 17 years. "You can't absorb it," said John Catsimatidis, owner of the Gristedes supermarket chain. "You either
A dozen eggs will cost about an arm and a leg. Not literally, but how does $2.17 sound? So far, that is the average price of a dozen eggs in 2008, up 42 cents from last year.
NEW YORK - Steve Tarpin can bake a graham cracker crust in his sleep, but explaining why the price for his Key lime pies went from $20 to $25 required mastering a thornier topic: global economics.
He recently wrote a letter to his customers and posted it near the cash register listing the factors: dairy prices driven higher by conglomerates buying up milk supplies, heat waves in Europe and California, demand from emerging markets and the weak dollar.
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