Last month's figures weren't the runaway disaster many had feared, but that only shows how rough things have become, as the U.S. economy deals with the twin problems of inflation and a slowdown. (See: "CPI Shows Inflation Is Still Chugging") In particular, energy prices have spiked by 15.9% over the past year, and food prices have gone up an eye-opening 5.1%.

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You can't have a "runaway reactor, " nor can a reactor explode like a nuclear bomb.

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The biggest contract winner, Spain's Repsol, has reportedly scaled back its work there because Pemex won't reimburse it for runaway inflation in rigs and workers.

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At first the police treated Ashley as a runaway, but when she didn't come home, she was reclassified as a missing person.

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"On that one prior time, he did a runaway, and we located him, so we don't have a longstanding history file on him, " Richardson said.

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