Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year, the overall cost-of-living index has risen a jarring 35% in Buenos Aires, 10% in Rome, 6% in Stockholm, 5% in Lisbon and Istanbul. Stockholm now leads all other cities in the cost of food, followed by Tokyo, Oslo, Helsinki, Paris and Rome; New York ranks all the way down to seventh on the list. Hotel rates are highest in Paris and Mexico City ($26 a day for a single), but a stay at the best hotels in Johannesburg and Lisbon costs only $7 a night...
...dean called student evaluation "the best single index for the assessment of young teachers. He mentioned two ways of communicating opinions, the Harvard Policy Committee's Departmental Audit plan, and student communication with department chairmen...
...Johnson's new measures approved by the 89th Congress, is coming off the presses this week. Part of the publisher's purpose is to help people find out about Government benefits they could rightfully claim but often pass up. In a larger sense, however, the volume -whose index begins with Accidents, airplane and ends about 2,000 items later with Zoological Park, National-tells a great deal about a government system that concerns itself with details of daily living beyond the fantasies of yesterday's Utopians. To move through its 1,011 pages is to have...
Dextran, says the Merck Index of Chemicals and Drugs, is "a term applied to carbohydrate slimes originating from sugar syrups, found in crystallizing tanks of sugar refineries." Thus described, dextran hardly sounds like anything for a doctor to prescribe. For years, however, it has been used as a readily available substitute for blood plasma to boost the volume of fluid in patients who are going into shock from loss of blood. Now a University of Maryland surgeon has reported that, quite by chance, he discovered a remarkable new use for the drug extracted from a slime: to reduce abnormally high...
...highballing trend to mergers has made U.S. railroads-and their stocks-more interesting than at any time in years. One sign: in its third record-breaking week in a row, the Dow-Jones railroad index last week rose to an all-time high of 236.93. Yet it often seems to take the courting railroads an un conscionably long time between their announced intention and the actual merger. No fewer than eleven mergers involving some 30 U.S. railroads are now pending, including the linking of the Pennsylvania and New York Central, and some of them have been held in suspense...