Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really sticks his index finger up there...
...been denying the existence of a national medical emergency. Certainly one aspect of the crisis, the skyrocketing cost of care, has abated. Medical inflation fell from an annual rate of 6.3% in the first half of last year to 4.4% in the second half, according to the consumer price index. New projections indicate that the Federal Government will spend $120 billion less on Medicare and Medicaid through 1998 than was estimated only a year...
...real estate market continued to surge in November as existing single-family homes sold at an annual rate of 4.21 million, breaking a record set in 1978, and new ones sold at an annual rate of 807,000 -- the highest level in more than seven years. The government's index of leading indicators also rose 0.5% in November, the fourth consecutive monthly increase. And the Conference Board business-research group said its consumer-confidence index jumped more than 8 points, to 80.2, in December...
Rather than count calories, Montignac measures foods by their "glycemic index," or the blood-sugar level they induce. Sugar, he contends, stimulates the overproduction of insulin, which leads the body to store fat. Thus foods with a high index, such as potatoes and white bread, should not be combined with fats like butter...
...damage. Montignac denies his diet is high in cholesterol and recommends cooking in olive oil and other unsaturated fats. Still, Dr. Stephen Heymsfield of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City gives Montignac the benefit of the doubt: "His physiobiology -- the glycemic index -- is oversimplistic, but nonscientists always oversimplify. However, it seems his recommendations are not necessarily outside accepted science and not dangerous...