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Czech consumer in connection with these price increases. It states that retail prices will not be changed without considering incomes of the population, and that increases probably will be reviewed by a special commission on living standards to ensure that the general level of retail prices stays within present guide- lines. This suggests that the regime is well aware of the po- litical danger in a sharp drop in living standards...