Word: indexation
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...earth are you to read these tea leaves? You can find other information sources, Mitchell suggests. Each month the Conference Board www.conference-board.org publishes an index of 10 leading economic indicators, including new consumer-goods orders and manufacturing hours worked. (The index rose a sharp 1% in May after a slight gain in April.) On the job front, check out hiring firm Manpower manpower.com) whose quarterly surveys ask employers whether they're planning to expand or shrink their staff. (The June release reported the weakest quarter in 12 years.) Or you may decide that daily ignorance is bliss. Says financial adviser...
Fortunately for her company, Tokyo-based Index Corp., she has not completely abandoned her female intuition. Five years ago, Index was struggling; the website-design firm's founders were dipping into their personal savings just to make the payroll. Index thought salvation might be found in a different line of work--collaborating with cellular giant NTT DoCoMo, which was developing Internet-enabled mobile phones and needed partners to provide new content and services. Ogawa, 37 and single, focused on the one subject she knew mattered most to the young women who were--and still are--Japan's heaviest cell-phone...
...Ogawa, Index's president, created the God of Love, the mobile-data equivalent of a women's magazine--an ever mutating mix of horoscopes, advice columns and multiple-choice interactive questionnaires aimed at unlocking your "Love Style" or "Tendency to Cheat." Launched in February 1999, the God of Love started slowly but grew to be a smash hit, now attracting more than 350,000 subscribers at $1.45 per month. Index provides a wide range of cell-phone-delivered content to some 7 million users. The company made profits last year of $9 million on revenues of $85 million...
...shamed me into my health club membership. After one summer back at home with Mom, whose zeal for raising our family on a fruit-and-vegetable-filled diet is notorious, I was fitter than ever. Still not the slimmest of students, I could confidently assert that my body mass index stood healthily under 25. I worked out regularly and ate a colorful and nutritious diet. I was a pretty healthy girl. And I was damn proud...
There are some signs of recovery, especially in the service sector, which accounts for 80% of U.S. employment. Although the economy has shed 394,000 jobs since the end of January, the S&P 500 index is up nearly 8.5% so far this year, and the lowest interest rates since 1958 are keeping the housing market strong. But by Straszheim's bearish reckoning, full-year growth for 2003 may amount to little more than 2%. That could pose a problem not just for workers but also for President Bush as he gears up for the 2004 election. If things...