Re: Hyphen crisis

From: "good_man" <good_man_101@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 30 Apr 2006 02:28:46 -0700

I came across this in a newspaper which does not fit the rule you just
described:

"higher fuel-economy standards for cars"

Here I guess they are talking about higher economy of fuel. Why aren't
they using a hyphen after "higher"?

Thanks.

.

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