Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panel of five eminent economists delivered an equivalent message to the government last week. The U.S. cost of living, said the panel, for years has been going up more slowly than the hallowed Consumer Price Index would suggest. One result is that the U.S. economy has been healthier for the past 20-odd years than anybody realized...
...Boskin Commission makes three major criticisms of the index...
About 94 million people receive government benefits--Social Security and federal-worker pensions, veterans' benefits, food stamps, subsidized school lunches--that by law are tied to the CPI. Perhaps 3 million workers have union contracts linking future wage increases partly to the index. Taxpayers' personal exemptions, standard deductions and tax-rate brackets are adjusted each year in tandem with the CPI, and the cumulative effect of changing those adjustments could be huge. The extra $37 paid by a median family the first year would grow to $1,755 over 10 years...
Violent crime in the city, including street robberies, will reach its lowest point in 30 years, according to the Cambridge Police Department's (CPD) quarterly crime index report...
This summer, Professor of Government Gary King wanted to buy the Current Index to Statistics, biographical software that searches for articles on statistical methods...