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...monthly price index appeared on September 22 and October 20 and will continue monthly, Gross said, adding that there has been no official response from the university's administration...
CHICAGO--The student newspaper of the University of Illinois has published twice this fall a consumer price index for marijuana, LSD, cocaine and amphetamines...
...economic questions, Reagan was on the attack, pointing to Carter's own "misery index"--the combined figures of inflation and unemployment rates: and nothing that Carter had exceeded a level that he had once called necessary for reelection...
...Monday the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 18.17 points, its steepest drop in more than six months. But later in the week the index rallied to close at 950.68, about a 10-point rise from the week before. A key reason was that many investors rushed to buy oil stocks in expectation that the turmoil in the Persian Gulf would soon push up petroleum prices...
...That is a discouraging prospect for American consumers, who last week were told by the Bureau of Labor statistics that food prices in the U.S. rose 1.7% in August, the highest increase in 2½ years. Although fuel costs did not increase at all in August, the Consumer Price Index jumped 0.7%. The Federal Reserve moved late in the week to attack inflation by raising the discount rate, the fee it charges on loans to member banks, from 10% to 11%. In response, banks began pushing up the prune rate...