Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some policy analysts argue that, with an estimated $150 billion deficit this year, the U.S. cannot afford to tend to such people. But the truest index of a society is how it provides for its most vulnerable members. At stake is America's self-respect, the sense of community that binds it together, and its standing in the community of civilized nations...
They are surface similarities and no more. But they have a fascination as wishful symbols, and are an index of the powerful changes that have occurred in America and the world in the past 28 years. The real meaning of a comparison between the elections of 1960 and 1988 is the vast difference that separates them...
...help you find these and other stories, the index has been expanded to two pages. If an index can be likened to a restaurant menu, the People section can be compared to dessert. Starting this week, dessert is regularly two pages instead...
...time the Quayle entourage arrived in Omaha, the staff had reduced bulky briefing books to fewer than 30 index cards with probable questions and answers. Some of the preparation paid off: Quayle had already scripted and rehearsed an answer for what turned out to be the evening's single slightly unusual question, ABC correspondent Brit Hume's query about books that had influenced...
...Brady commission confirmed that heavy trading of speculative "derivative products," like stock-index futures, exacerbated the October crash. It is obvious that futures, options and their kin are securities and should be treated as such. Their trading should be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fact that they are now regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has simply turned the securities markets into commodity markets...