Most wage settlements and loans are indexed, reducing inflation's volatility.
en.wikipedia.org This culminated in the 1970s, with the appearance of illegal urban settlements, squatters and barrios.
en.wikipedia.org Shanty towns also tend to lack basic services present in more formally organized settlements, including policing, mail delivery, medical services and fire fighting.
en.wikipedia.org Similarly, many unlucky merchants set up in settlements which disappeared, or which succumbed to one of the calamitous fires that swept the towns that sprang up.
en.wikipedia.org The pioneer shoemaker, gunsmith and blacksmith were welcome adjuncts to the early settlements, as were, also, the back-woods school masters and preachers.
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