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The law also contains problematic exemptions for certain categories of plastic foodware, they say.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Pricing increased 0.8% as the company raised prices in some categories to offset higher input costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

This measurement, which has critics and fans, discards the categories with the most extreme inflation readings on both the high and low ends.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Once the dry clutter is gone, what remains tends to sort itself into a few familiar categories:

From Salon • May 5, 2026

You get an instant infusion of wealth and are simultaneously vested with something far more valuable: celebrity, which has become a kind of super-class in America, and one that renders all the old categories irrelevant.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times