Word: indexation
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...Assistant Professor of Medicine Simin Liu, the senior author in the WHS findings, said he believed that the studies differed because of varying definitions of what it means to be overweight. For the WHS study, a person was labeled overweight if her Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure of total body fat, was above 25—the lower limit of the overweight category as defined by the National Institutes of Health...
...when investors queued for hours to snatch up order forms for shares of Internet ventures, only to see their acquisitions turn to dross when the bubble popped. These days, the object of desire has changed, with investors equally convinced that the China boom is a sure thing. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland companies are called, spiked 152% in 2003. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing to raise cash. This year will bring a bevy of highly anticipated IPOs, including Ping An Insurance, China's second largest insurer, telecom company...
...immigration official checks my papers quickly and appears satisfied. He tells me to smile for the spherical, silver camera that floats above his head, then leads my right index finger and then my left to the electronic pad that registers my prints. Though I understand the need for this and appreciate that it is done swiftly, I prickle slightly, feeling like a booked criminal in a country with which I have had a long and pleasant association...
...habit of circling his index finger and thumb around his mouth while he’s listening to you,” one student recalls. “And sometimes he’ll glance away, stare at an empty spot in the room—and it’s just his pose. But it’s fairly disconcerting to a freshman trying desperately to impress him and make a fairly intelligent point to the president of the school and the world’s expert on this topic...
Gold is trading at more than $400 an ounce for the first time in nearly eight years, and industrial commodities like nickel, rubber and cotton just had their fifth highest annual price gain as measured by the Journal of Commerce--Economic Cycle Research Institute index, which began in 1949. How can individual investors profit from the rush? Analysts don't recommend esoteric futures and options, which are subject to vagaries like war and weather. A more prudent option, analysts say, is buying stock in companies that supply copper and tin, or an exchange-traded fund like the Materials Select Sector...