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...Britannica, of which he is editorial board chairman. He was a founder of Britannica's 54- volume Great Books of the Western World, and personally wrote every one of the 5,000- to 10,000-word essays defining the 102 Great Ideas that constitute the heart of a prodigious index to the Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute for Philosophical Research, which is devoted to publishing learned tracts. He passionately pushes his Paideia program, an experimental educational system that is imbuing selected elementary and high schools in Atlanta, Oakland and Chicago with a rigorous curriculum...
...World or the Grand Canyon that they had planned for this summer. Reason: the price of gasoline is suddenly spurting again. The Government reported last week that the cost of motor fuel rose 3.6% in March. That was the main reason for the .5% jump in the Consumer Price Index, its sharpest monthly increase since January 1984. In another report, the Oil and Gas Journal found that the average price of gasoline in the U.S. climbed 3 cents per gal. in March, to $1.15, which was 10 cents higher than it had been a year earlier...
...Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under the tutelage of the Austrian ambassador to Venice, drawings and prints had been regarded mainly as curiosities or reference objects and were seldom collected in a systematic way. Albert was the first to focus methodically on drawings as an index to the development of artists, while dividing his collection chronologically and by schools; though not a writer, he was one of the fathers of art history...
...overall increase is greater than the roughly 4 percent rise of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a factor Gerrity attributed to the fact that "some of the costs increase at rates faster than inflation," including maintenance and energy...
...year is already off to a strong start. The Commerce Department said last week that the index of leading economic indicators, which tries to foretell future growth, climbed 1.7% in January, its sharpest advance in 18 months. That report electrified the stock market, where investors went on a buying binge. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped nearly 26 points during the day, to 1309.96, before falling back to a record close of 1299.36, which topped the peak...