Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other European contracts include automatic increases to keep wages in line with living costs; whenever the Italian cost-of-living index gains a point, industry must pay out $52.8 million in added wages-and the index has risen 20 points in two years...
Through the memory unit of CTSS, University physicists will have instant access to an electronic index of 20,000 physics articles from 15 scientific journals. The index consists of more than .3 million entries arranged by both subject and author. New periodicals are being added at the rate of one per month, and other fields may be indexed in the future...
...companies across the country are shown in the adjoining color portfolio. An index of how advanced the movement has now become is the fact that New York is catching up with it. Biggest event of the 1963-64 theatrical season was the debut last month of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center...
Wellington's Bugle. The man behind the world's biggest such babel is Curator G. Robert Vincent, 63, whose faith in sound-as-scholarship rests on the idea that "the voice is the surest index to character." Vincent got his idea back in 1913, when at the age of twelve he thrust a cumbersome Edison machine under Teddy Roosevelt's mustache and begged him to speak. In his oddly manful squeak, T.R. advised all boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound...
...latest movement of the consumer price index did little to assuage fears of another inflation spiral. What a consumer could buy for $105.80 in December 1962 cost him $107.60 last December-the biggest price jump in five years. Much of the increase comes from a severe freeze in the South that drove up prices of fruits and vegetables, which figure heavily in the Labor Department's index; but prices are also up in other areas, from transportation to movie tickets. One hopeful fact: wholesale prices, whose rise is essential in any real inflationary movement, actually registered a slight decline...