Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present price trends continue up ward, the average American will remember 1968 as a very expensive year. In August, the most recent month for which the consumer price index has been computed, prices rose 4.3% over the same month in 1967. For the year to date, they have risen 3% over...
...higher. Hourly workers are paid $2.85 on the average; annual per capita disposable income has climbed 7% in a year, to $2,918. Along with these overall increases, some 3,260,000 union members automatically get from 2? to 11? more an hour each time the cost of living index goes...
There are other quirks as well. For decades, the FBI has used a $50 minimum in defining larcenies that make up an important part of its crime index. Obviously, the shrinking value of the dollar changes the meaning of those figures; partly as a result, larceny has been the fastest-growing category on the crime index recently. Another example: for as long as anyone has kept track, youths from the mid-teens to early 20s have committed the largest number of offenses in all categories. During the '60s, the post-World War II baby crop came of criminal...
...high for the year. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 7.83 points in a day to reach 938.28. At that level, it had climbed 68.63 points from its Aug. 9 summer low; it stood only a shade below its 1967 peak of 943.08. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inched up 0.35 points to its own 1968 high...
...Brazilian edition, published in 1962, was titled Primeiras Estorias (First Stories). The index was illustrated with pictograms representing the themes of the tales; the drawings are reprinted on the dust jacket of the U.S. edition...