Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dollar was stumbling, the Japanese stock market was practically falling on its face. The Nikkei Index dropped to 14,309, its lowest level since 1986, forcing the government to take action. The Finance Ministry announced new rules to discourage banks from dumping shares, which brought at least a temporary recovery. But critics said long-promised government spending programs are needed to make the recovery permanent...
...they're not that stuck. We tried the other formula not so many years ago -- a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress -- and out we came with a misery index, unemployment and inflation, the highest it's been in modern times. That formula has been tried. The other one has not been tried, and I would like to see that...
Shattuck said Harvard administrators budgeted for a union pay increase "substantially above the rate of inflation," which he said is about 2.8 percent a year, measured by the consumer price index in the Boston area. He said Harvard and the union have agreed not to discuss specific wage proposals with the press...
CAPTION: Japan's Nikkei Index...
...smartness have embraced an impressive vocabulary to explain how the drugs work: one amino acid, said a pumped-up advocate, "inhibits an enzyme that breaks down the endorphins and enkephalins localized in the brain." Another "causes an increase in a particular neurotransmitter involved in mental alertness. Your arousal index is much higher...