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Officials cited some statistics to indicate the scope of the problem the commission is tackling: the cost of a college education has increased 235 percent since 1980 while the median family income and consumer price index have grown only 82 percent and 70 percent respectively...
...gesture seemed too small with a full-blown panic possibly still ahead. At half time of Monday Night Football, the NASDAQ stock market, a sponsor, stated its closing value as it usually does, but failed to mention, as it usually does, the index's change for the day. In this case, it was down a record 116 points...
...Employment Cost Index, which the Fed chairman watches very closely, rose 0.8% in the third quarter of 1997, the same as the previous quarter. It's a signal that labor costs for businesses are not picking up even though the unemployment rate hovers at the lowest level in a generation...
...genuine slock. Basically anyone remotely noteworthy in pop music in the 70s appeared on "The Midnight Special" at some point: from Sly and the Family Stone to Earth, Wind and Fire; from Tom Jones to Alice Cooper. And since The Midnight Special includes a table of contents and song index, it is possible to quickly locate information on a particular artist or song or performer...
...What happened? First of all, heavy selling in Tokyo ? where the blue-chip Nikkei 225 index plummeted 697.51 points, or 4.2 percent, to end at 15836.36. It was the first time the index retreated below the 16000 mark since 1995. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong dropped another 2.95 percent Friday, ending down...