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...Consumer Price Index, the most widely watched measure of inflation, was getting out of whack with today's American life-style. Last adjusted in 1978, the Labor Department's so-called market basket of goods and services was too heavily weighted with such items as hard liquor, red meat and tobacco, all of which the typical American now consumes less of than a decade ago. So last week when the Government released its January CPI figure, the number reflected a reapportioned mix of goods and services to measure more accurately inflation for the typical consumer...
...total bill for updating the market basket, which involved a survey of 40,000 households in 1982-84, was $45 million. But that amount is small compared with how much the Government might save from a more precise CPI. Reason: the index serves as the basis for adjustments in payments to tens of millions of Social Security recipients and other federal beneficiaries...
There's still more than a bit of the inner-city left in Duncan. He talks with a thick accent, and his play is littered with flamboyant, dipsy-do, touches. Against Brown last month, Duncan, caught up in the air with his back to the basket, hurled a shot off the top corner of the backboard which spun into the net. Duncan ran downcourt with a completely straight face--you never admit luck on the playground...
Kosh executed excellent offense, dishing out five assists and driving to the basket to net nine points on four of four shooting. She also was credited with five steals...
...course, I'm hardly the person to preach to a conference room full of Blacks. I can't even take it strong to the basket. Still, I'm concerned. In order for Blacks to exert influence, we've got to get the money. Jobs in investment banking were for me always one step on the way to getting rich, not the way. Stuck in a dead-end, no-power job, waiting for the secretary to bring the cheese croissants, is hardly...