Word: index
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That rosy outlook was supported in part by reassuring Government statistics published just as the corporate chiefs were arriving at the resort. The Producer Price Index, a measure of future inflation, fell in September by 0.2%, its second monthly decline in a row. And retail sales during the same month rose...
...polling firm Yankelovich, Skelly & White, reached a low point in 1975. During the Bicentennial celebrations, all sorts of Americans were surprised to find themselves feeling a frisson of harmless patriotic pleasure. Between June and September 1976, the surveys showed a 10% jump in the "state of the nation index," the fastest rise recorded by Yankelovich before or since. Carter's improbable, romantic victory sent spirits higher still, to a level not reached again until this year. But after his first year, the mood started to sour, declining further after the American embassy staff was imprisoned in Tehran...
...Less generous indexing. Under full indexing, which goes into effect next year, the amount of income subject to a particular rate of tax is adjusted upward each year by a percentage equal to the inflation rate. Mondale, however, would index the incomes of families earning more than $25,000 a year only to the extent that inflation exceeds 4% annually. If the inflation rate is 5%, their incomes would be indexed...
...library system in 1982 could only count on 36 percent of its book-buying budget coming from endowment, and the Faculty had to give a whopping 46 percent. During the same period, book costs have outstripped the Consumer Price Index by more than 80 percent, library salaries have fallen in real terms, and the need for preservation work has grown more desperate...
...period for her earlier books, Cromwell: The Lord Protector and Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration, Lady Antonia must have amassed an exhaustive file under some such heading as "17th century women: the great exceptions." She sets it all out stylishly here in a sprawling documentary. The index lists the names of more than 550 women, most of whom, in one way or another, refused to play the game...