Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest strength. But while the economy is gaining, voters perceive the rate of progress as slowing. The share of people who say they feel economic stress -worry about paying off bills or losing jobs-dropped from a high of 36% last June to 30% in October; since then, the index has shown no real improvement. Last week it stood...
...Army accumulated the names of 100,000 people who were involved, even tangentially, in political protest activities (including Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, who made the list for merely attending a peaceful political rally watched by the service's agents). The CIA surpassed everyone, maintaining a catchall index of 1.5 million names taken from the 250,000 letters opened and photographed by the agency. Noted the Senate report: "Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies, and too much information has been collected...
True, the index of leading indicators -those figures that foreshadow economic trends-fell .4% in March, but that appeared to be an aberration that probably was reversed in April. Some economists already believe that total national output in the current quarter, discounted for inflation, will match the unexpectedly strong 7.5% gain of the first three months...
...serious thrusts at Leone and at Christian Democrats in general remain vague, unpointed. At the beginning of the story, "the execration index when it came to him (Leone) had risen to eighty-two per cent, as against thirteen per cent for those who hated him and five per cent for those who merely loathed him. . . The parties on the Left considered the Professor the symbol of the arrogance of power. His Christian Democrat friends by now found him an irritating and conceited old man. But the former did not judge it convenient to overthrow him, convinced as they were that...
...wages. The U.R.W. may compromise on this point, but across-the-board raises are another matter. Just before the strike deadline, Firestone increased its wage offer by a dime, to a $1.15 hourly raise over three years, and offered a COLA that would be activated if the Consumer Price Index rose more than seven percentage points in any one year. Peter Bommarito, 60, the U.R.W.'s tireless, white-moustached president, called the offer "insulting...