Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock market's extraordinary rise: a strong yen, low interest rates and falling oil prices. Now that the Tokyo market is on a rocky slide, investors have labeled the culprits the Triple Demerits: a weakening yen, growing inflation and rising interest rates. The triple whammy has sent the Nikkei index down nearly 15% so far this year. In one session last week the index dived 1,569 points, or 4.5%, the biggest one-day loss since the 1987 crash. The index lurched up and down for the rest of the week, closing down 833 points...
...early last week, many investors hoped Tokyo's financial markets would celebrate. But the champagne corks never popped. Instead investors watched in distress as the Tokyo stock market suffered one of its biggest declines ever. Falling in four of the five daily sessions last week, the 225-issue Nikkei index plummeted more than 2,500 points, or nearly 7%. Approximately half of the drop occurred on Wednesday alone. The Nikkei closed at 35,890.97, the lowest level since last October...
...task force also recommended changing the law to allow property tax increases based on a "sliding index," which would take into account such factors as a city's property values and population...
...advisory committee is presently being formed to choose interview subjects and to coordinate interviews. The interviews are scheduled to begin in April. Project organizers plan to record, transcribe, and index approximately 40 interview series' over the next three years...
...mannered novels are funny on purpose. In his first, The McLandress Dimension (1963), the Harvard professor introduced a concept that measured the time -- often a matter of milliseconds -- that public figures spend thinking of matters unrelated to themselves. The new novel, his third, explores the equally valuable IRAT, or Index of Irrational Expectations, a quantification of the collective wrongheadedness of the stock market. Harvard technocrat Montgomery Marvin, known for his seminal study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich. He thus affronts the self-satisfied Cambridge community, where "no one has ever been known to repeat what...