Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning next February, the U.S. cost-of-living index will include the cost of dying, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced. Bestselling Author Jessica Mitford and all the current furor about the high cost of dying had nothing to do with it, insisted Bureau Assistant Commissioner Arnold E. Chase. Bureaucracy doesn't move that fast. Over a year ago, said Chase, the bureau decided to add the cost of funerals to the 300 items included in the monthly index, along with 50 other new additions. Among them: legal expenses, installment credit, hotel and motel rates...
...Luton goes, said the pundits, so may most other industrial areas where Labor has traditionally been strongest. Speaking more to Luton's floating voter than the faithful in Perth, the Prime Minister used every crossroads stopover last week to inveigh against the Labor Party's "card-index, button-pushing society." With a socialist government, said he, "we would be like puppets on long strings of red tape, with the strings pulled in Whitehall." To his listeners' delight, the Prime Minister invariably added: "As a Scotsman, I never think Whitehall knows best...
...than to pay a fee for the judgment of professional fund managers. Though redemptions have been rising faster, total sales of all funds are on the increase again. The stock market rise has helped to boost fund assets about $6 billion above last year. While the Dow Jones index gained 27% in the twelve months ending Sept. 30, net assets of the ten biggest funds rose an average 24% per share in the same period...
Each executive took some tests that seemed, at first glance, to have nothing to do with mental ability. They were asked to show how steady they could hold their hands, how fast they could wiggle their index fingers, how fast a light could flicker before they saw it as a steady beam. Such studies were to show how well the nervous system was functioning at the physiological level. There were other tests that dealt with reactions to abstract patterns, and that graded the subjects on ability to understand and remember what they heard and read. Because of little-understood crossovers...
...were not myself," writes Alec Waugh, "and if I were to pick up the autobiography of Alec Waugh, the first name that I should look for in the index would be Evelyn Waugh." Sadly, he would be right. Alec, 65, is a skilled journeyman writer of novels (Island in the Sun) and travel books (Hot Countries), but he has the misfortune of having a younger brother who is a comic genius. Happily, for most of his autobiography he manages to forget that fact and concentrate on his own story-which often reads like an extension of his fiction...