Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep students awake. Between the stroke of the hour and the time most classes begin at Harvard, students already could have had an entire education--and be able to prove it. All they have to do is clip around the dotted line and frame T.M.U.'s 3 x 5 index card of a diploma...
...stock mutual funds, these are indeed uncomfortable times. Since the market peaked in August, the assets of equity-based mutual funds have fallen 21.1%, from $234.3 billion to $185 billion. That was a slightly worse showing than the market as a whole, as measured by the Standard & Poor's Index of 500 stocks, which fell 20.9%. Fidelity's flagship Magellan fund, worth $12 billion in August, has shed 31% of its value. Pioneer II, a $4.4 billion fund three months ago, has lost...
...referring to "Untrivial Pursuits," (November 3), a book review by Noam Cohen. Cohen perhaps can be forgiven because he is still young and impressionable, but the editors of The Harper's Index Book which he reviewed should be locked up and the key thrown away...
Cohen seems to find much glee in his discovery that the Index is "unsparing in its depiction of the folkways of the Midwest." Never mind that he couches glee in his despair. His smugness and "Letterman-esque snidery" are much more apparent. He relates that the Index tells us "40 percent of Iowans have a hard time singing The Star-Spangled Banner.'" The people who compiled the book, as well as its readership, would probably interpret a universal Midwestern knowledge of the national anthem as the mindless nationalism most of them undoubtedly believe is characteristic of the region...
Nowhere did the chaos of Black Monday strike harder than in the tiny Asian entrepot. When the Hang Seng index dived 11% within hours on that day, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange simply vaporized, and Exchange Chairman Ronald Li closed it down for four days. When trading reopened last Monday, the value of shares plummeted an additional 33%, to about $50 billion, wiping out a year's gains. "This is not a stock market," said a furious Hong Kong local moneyman. "This is a poorly run casino...