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Gardner is constantly on the lookout for new uses of the data already in the computers' memory drums. A service called Gasoline Profit Index, for example, helps oil companies find locations for service stations by providing a block-by-block profile of any neighborhood in any U.S. city: how many cars are owned there, what makes and vintage, by men or women, of what age. Since Cadillacs use more gasoline than Falcons, and eight-cylinder engines more than six-cylinders, since women do not drive as much as men, it is possible to estimate down to the number...
...present price trends continue up ward, the average American will remember 1968 as a very expensive year. In August, the most recent month for which the consumer price index has been computed, prices rose 4.3% over the same month in 1967. For the year to date, they have risen 3% over...
...higher. Hourly workers are paid $2.85 on the average; annual per capita disposable income has climbed 7% in a year, to $2,918. Along with these overall increases, some 3,260,000 union members automatically get from 2? to 11? more an hour each time the cost of living index goes...
...high for the year. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 7.83 points in a day to reach 938.28. At that level, it had climbed 68.63 points from its Aug. 9 summer low; it stood only a shade below its 1967 peak of 943.08. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inched up 0.35 points to its own 1968 high...
...Brazilian edition, published in 1962, was titled Primeiras Estorias (First Stories). The index was illustrated with pictograms representing the themes of the tales; the drawings are reprinted on the dust jacket of the U.S. edition...