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Many workers who feel that they�re falling behind financially have another statistical report to substantiate the feeling.

At the holiday, let’s define the current economic trends

By CHRIS LESTER

The Kansas City Star

The upcoming holiday offers a fine time to ponder how money has made people behave so far this year. So here are random thoughts for random thinkers on the defining economic trends of the moment.

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Soaring fuel costs are taking some of the celebration out of this holiday weekend. Oil prices headed into the busy Fourth of July break by racing past $145 a barrel for the first time Thursday. The story was no different at the gas pump, where the national average soared to within a whisker of $4.10 a gallon.

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Power & Light District to add more eateries

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The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Power & Light District continues to add eateries to its mix. •The nation’s third 801 Steak & Chop House will open in a 10,314-square-foot space at the southwest corner of 14th and Walnut streets on Oct. 1.

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Now that Sprint Nextel Corp.’s Instinct phone — designed to compete primarily with Apple’s iPhone — is out of the box, so too is the marketing campaign to back it up.

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