Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Dow average of 30 blue-chip stocks has now erased three-fifths of its 1966 slump, broader gauges of the market show even more striking recovery. Standard & Poor's index of 425 industrials last week soared to an alltime high of 101.16, and the ten-month-old composite index of all 1,267 common shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange reached a new peak...
Special attention must be paid to the guarantee: "Reading Dynamics will refund the tuition of any student who fails to at least triple his reading index during the course as measured by our standard testing program. This guarantee is valid so long as the student attends each lesson and maintains the requisite home drill at least one hour daily at levels specified by his instructor...
...reading index" is the product of the reading rate multiplied by the percent score on the comprehension test. Thus if a student reads 300 words per minute and scores 70 per cent on the test he takes during the first session, his index is 210. If on the final test he reads at 1500 words per minute, he need score only 42 per cent on the comprehension score to triple his former reading index to 630. What makes this stipulation even less valid is that before the final test during the eighth lesson, the students are usually instructed...
Worry & Save. To the distress of merchants and the dismay of the Government, the consumer has been conserving. The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center found that consumer confidence, as measured by the center's index of sentiment, dropped last November and December to its lowest point since the recession of 1958. In spite of record-high personal income, consumption rose only sluggishly and the demand for consumer credit reached its lowest point in four years. Personal saving, on the other hand, rose to 5.9% of income...
Today, Harvard's Health Services are generally recognized as the best in the nation, and--if the number of speech invitations is a reliable index--Dr. Farnsworth is the nation's leading college health administrator...