Word: indexed
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...committee did not offer any specific criteria for changing the transcripts, but possible additions discussed yesterday included listing the median grade for courses, course size and a cumulative grade index...
...economy is improving markedly, according to a number of new statistics. Personal income in October rose six-tenths of 1%, the third advance in a row, and consumer spending increased for the seventh consecutive month. The Commerce Department's Index of Leading Indicators increased 0.5%, the third major uptick in as many months. Consumer confidence as measured by the Conference Board jumped 11 points in November. Unemployment dropped from 6.8% in October to 6.4% in November, the best monthly improvement in 10 years. Another key indicator of economic health, existing-home sales, jumped 3.6% in October...
...used homes hit a 14-year high. November retail-sales gains were only so-so, which might be a bad omen for the all important Christmas season. But simultaneously, consumer confidence, as measured by the Conference Board, a business-research group, jumped 11 points in November to an index number of 72.2, still relatively low but the highest since January...
...looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo and the compilers of the index of banned books. The weight of history is borne in the attention Ratzinger receives. His staff, which includes some of the church's brightest men, is sensitive to every small sign of pleasure or displeasure -- a subtle glance, a pause, a bland word that has accrued special meaning over years...
...speaking of cute, we were impressed by the anonymous submission, straight out of the Eliot House Facebook. They're married tutors. They're vraiment adorable. We salute them, and the submitter who knows a good facebook kiss when he/she sees one. On an index card included in the submission, Anonymous wrote, 'Not undergraduates, but too cute to pass up." We couldn't have said it any better ourselves...