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Three Years of a Structural Change Went Into the Seasonal Factor
The seasonally adjusted number came in at a level everyone described as steady. The unadjusted number for that month was the weakest for that month in eleven years. Both are published. One of them …
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Four Bedrooms for a Family That Is Never in the Country at Once
On the road up from the highway there are now eleven houses of a kind that did not exist when I was a child. Concrete frame, two storeys, tiled to about waist height in a colour, steel reinforcemen…
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The Wall Protects This Ward and Takes the Beach From the Next One
The seawall ends at a survey marker about four hundred metres north of the temple, because that is where the ward ends. North of the marker the beach has lost, by the measurements the fisheries dep…
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The Invitation Had a Schedule on It
The invitation to a friend's fortieth had a schedule on it. Not a start time — a schedule. Arrival and drinks, six to seven. A thing involving a quiz, seven to eight. Food, eight. Speeches, nine. I…
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The Money Arrived Before Anyone Who Could Spend It
The rural municipality's capital budget in the second year of the new structure was, in round numbers, twelve crore. It returned a little over four. Not stolen — returned, to the federal treasury, …
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The Novel About Us Was Written in a Language Almost None of Us Reads
The bookshop in McLeod Ganj has a shelf of Tibetan writing and about nine tenths of it is in English. Memoirs, mostly. Two novels. A collection of essays that I have taught from. All by Tibetans, a…
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The Wire Transfer My Mother Cannot Read
The receipt is a thermal-paper slip about the length of my hand, and by the time it reaches my mother in Lamjung the ink has already started to fade. She keeps them in a biscuit tin anyway. Nine ye…
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The Textbooks Arrived in the Second Week of October
The session begins in April. The books for class seven arrived on the eleventh of October, in four bundles, on a tractor, and were signed for by the headmaster, who has a register for exactly this …
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There Are Four Grocery Shops on That Road and All of Them Are New
Between the bus stop and the school, a distance of maybe six hundred metres, there are now four shops selling more or less the same things: biscuits, noodles, soap, cooking oil, phone credit, sweet…
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She Was Not Non-Compliant, She Had Two Correct Instructions
The discharge packet was six pages. Page two said, in a box, HOLD warfarin until INR checked. Page five, in the medication list generated by a different system, said warfarin 5 mg, take one tablet …
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