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Violent crime in the city, including street robberies, will reach its lowest point in 30 years, according to the Cambridge Police Department's (CPD) quarterly crime index report...
This summer, Professor of Government Gary King wanted to buy the Current Index to Statistics, biographical software that searches for articles on statistical methods...
...back to all that. But first consider just how out-of-the-box this dividend score is. Since 1928, when record keeping started, the dividend yield of the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has tended to float between 3% and 6%. Until now, the lowest it ever got was 2.6% in both 1973 and 1987--just ahead of huge market declines...
...midsummer, the message had been scattered across hundreds of little index cards. Murphy had produced the cards, handy "talking points" for aides, staff and Friends of Bob to carry around in their pockets. "The Better Man for a Better America," one card was headed. Below it were subheads: Economy, Opportunity, Quality of Life. Under each subhead were topics: Balanced Budget, Welfare, Crime. But this wasn't a message. It was a list...
...proposal in particular seems fair and powerful. We should pursue a plan that New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been pushing for several years--a recalculation of the consumer price index so that it no longer triggers a higher-than-necessary cost of living adjustment in Social Security checks and other entitlements. Since 1972, all manner of wages and benefits have been tied to the inflation rate. Yet there's a wide consensus among economists that the CPI overstates the actual rise in the cost of living. The reasons are complicated, but one, called the "substitution effect," is easily...