Word: index
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, their SCRIPT system not only provides a student with basic word processing but will automatically index it, arrange the footnotes, and print them at the bottom of the page, and number of pages and chapters. The cost, according to Guy J. Ciannavel, associate director of OIT, is approximately $5 an hour...
...Plaza de Mayo silently, as if under water, photographs of their sons, daughters and husbands swinging on chains from their necks like good-luck charms. Sometimes the women would bear the photographs on placards; sometimes they would hold a snapshot delicately out in front of them between the index finger and the thumb, presenting unassailable proof to anyone who cared to look that the subject of the picture did, at one time, exist. Every Thursday the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo performed their half-hour ritual across the street from the presidential Pink House, and then dispersed for a week...
...electronic wizard chooses what stocks to buy and sell without further human meddling. Says LeBaron: "Other companies use computers as adjuncts to people. We've turned that concept around and put the computer in charge." The computer has done well, beating the Standard & Poor's 500 index by an annual average of 6% over the past ten years. As new clients have flocked to Batterymarch, the pool of assets it man ages has grown from $42 million in 1973 to more than $10 billion. LeBaron's personal income is at least $8 million a year...
...managing Capital Guardian's pension-fund pool of $8 billion, Kirby has been more cautious, sticking mostly to stocks in the biggest companies. Capital Guardian's portfolio has never run far ahead of the S & P 500 stock index, but has also rarely dipped below...
...company does not bet everything on one strategy. Says Day: "We use six different minds on the same problem. We're a committee that designs a horse instead of a camel." Over the past decade, the Trust Company of the West has beaten the S & P 500 index by an annual average of at least 2%, but last year the company fell behind somewhat. Reason: the managers failed to switch money fast enough from high-technology shares, which were big gainers early in the bull market, to stocks in basic industries like steel that came on strong later...