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"Sky-high consumer-price inflation coupled with subdued wage inflation and little, if any, rise in employment means that household real incomes are being squeezed," said Alan Clarke , an economist at BNP Paribas SA.

U.K. Consumers Face Squeeze Ainsley Thomson 2011

Sky-high metals prices combined with the weak U.S. economy in recent years have led brazen thieves to strip copper wire out of vacant homes, swipe stainless-steel beer kegs from bars and even make off with manhole covers, street lights and parts of fire hydrants.

Sky-High Metal Prices Lead to a Grave Situation Joe Barrett 2011

Sky-high electricity costs aren't even justified any more by extremely stable power supplies: Half the country is rationing electricity this summer to prevent blackouts.

Perverse Power in Japan James Simms 2011

Sky-high unemployment—not of millionaires they can move to Texas or otherwise shield their money, but of the same working-class people who once were employed at that New York restaurant.

Occupiers Successful! (In Destroying Jobs) 2011

“Sky-high taxation crushes families under its weight.”

Paul Weyrich and Wars « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

Sky-high gasoline inventories have resulted in a much larger drop in futures prices for the fuel compared to crude oil.

Oil Follows Stocks Higher 2010

Sky-high baggage charges have caught out one in five holidaymakers this summer, with travellers forced to pay an average of £25 in charges or fines.

Airlines hit travellers with extra baggage charges 2010

Sky-high taxation crushes families under its weight.

Paul Weyrich and Wars « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

ROBERTS: Sky-high fines for two of the nation's largest airlines for alleged safety violations.

CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009 2009

Sky-high oil prices didn't hurt either, of course, and now that they've dropped sharply as a result of the economic crisis, Russia suddenly finds itself facing straitened circumstances.

The Russians Are Coming? Caryl, Christian 2009