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...measure the health of the U.S. economy, suggested by the late economist Arthur Okun, is the discomfort index, a sum of the unemployment and inflation rates. In November 1980, that yardstick stood at 20.2% (12.7% inflation and 7.5% unemployment). On Election Day this year, TIME'S economists predict, the discomfort index will be only 12.7% (5.4% inflation and 7.3% unemployment...
...searching for ways to minimize the widespread exploitation of student-athletes, while recognizing that no single minimum test score is a valid index of academic marginality across the spectrum of American colleges and universities. What is remarkable about our current work, I think, is that the ACE, the historically Black colleges, and the testing services are cooperating in this search. And for this constructive step Mr. Bok's leadership is largely responsible. Robert E. Klitgaard
Book burning by censors of the Roman Catholic Church sputtered out long ago. The Index of Prohibited Books, and other means of limiting what the faithful were permitted to read, faded away during and after the Second Vatican Council. Now, however, there are small signs that the pendulum is swinging back slightly. No flames of outright censorship are visible, but a purifying heat seems to be coming out of Rome. For the first time in 17 years, two books, one of them the bestselling adult catechism in English and the other a lesser-known theological work used mainly in seminaries...
...several explanations" of the origins of mankind, some publishers began to alter their texts to make them more widely acceptable. For instance, in the 1981 high school biology book published by Laidlaw Bros., a division of Doubleday, the word evolution did not appear, even in the glossary or index...
...have to know everything that's going on," Wolfe explains later. "We could be stock-market consultants." In a sense they are, since buyers regulate the flow of merchandise that determines the rise and fall of the fashion index. Wolfe, like more and more buyers from big stores, has his instincts reinforced by computer analyses of past sales. "If we bought 20 furs and sold 20," he says, "then we didn't buy enough. If we bought 20 and sold twelve, we bought too many and the remainder have to go on sale. Fifteen...