Word: indexation
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...twin drivers of our age: globalization and technology. The economy has doubled in size in 15 years, foreign direct investment is 40 times what it was in 1991, and India now has several world-class conglomerates. And there are 70,000 millionaires in India, celebrating a stock index that has tripled in three years. But in a country of 1.1 billion people, where 800 million earn $2 a day or less, the Naxal movement shows that members-only progress can spur a deep sense of injustice. Economic growth of 7-8% sounds pretty good until you realize it means just...
...admissions office gives basketball the most help it can (and questions of rifts after the huge nine-person entry class of 2002-2003 seem to have been answered with the six-person entry class this year). But faced with a higher Academic Index requirement than the rest of the Ivies, in addition to Harvard’s traditionally strong commitment to its hockey program, there is a limit to the flexibility that admissions has with regard to basketball recruits...
...Wall Street. Large-cap companies (generally defined as those with a market capitalization, or value, of more than $10 billion) have been all but forgotten. The S&P 500 (big firms) is down 13% since the end of 1999. Yet since then, the S&P small-cap index is up a breathtaking...
...they’ll be selected differently. Probably, [the NCAA will] spread the bids out among second place teams, so our chances, I believe, are better than they’ve been in awhile.”Historically, to make the NIT teams need to have a Rating Percentage Index (RPI) of around 150 or lower. The RPI is a formula measuring strength of schedule maintained by the NCAA to help determine postseason participants. The formula is 25 percent team winning percentage, 50 percent average opponent winning percentage, and 25 percent the average winning percentage of the opponents of opponents.Harvard...
...Closing value of India's Sensex stock market index on Feb. 7, the first time the index has closed above...