Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003 | 9:16 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Consumer prices rose by 0.3 percent in August, the largest increase in five months, reflecting in part a jump in the cost of gasoline that pinched motorists' pockets.
The latest reading on the Consumer Price Index, the government's most closely watched inflation barometer, came after increases of 0.2 percent in June and July, the Labor Department reported today.
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