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With a relatively high Rating Percentage Index (RPI)--Harvard's 75th place in the RPI rankings was higher than seven other tournament qualifiers--the winningest regular season in Harvard history and its third consecutive Ivy League crown, the Crimson expected to garner a 14 or 15 seed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Preview | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

Seven tournament-qualifying schools ranked below Harvard in Rating Percentage Index (RPI), the primary indicator the selection committee uses to seed teams for the Big Dance. Four of those teams received higher seeds than Harvard. Doesn't that seem like a lack of respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perez-Gizspenser | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

Inflation has been all but wiped off the worry screen of most Americans. But not of politicians and government statistics moles, who last week adjusted the Consumer Price Index downward for the fourth consecutive year. Stifle that yawn. The CPI, the nation's principal gauge of inflation, is not just a measure of the price of a quart of milk or a gallon of gas. It is easily the most important weapon in the government's considerable measurements arsenal. It forms the basis for annual benefits adjustments to some 80 million voters, from union workers and Social Security recipients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring The New CPI | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...piece of paper that would allow him to drink free anywhere in the empire. When he lost the piece of paper, he was given in its place a more permanent mark of the tsar's decree: a tattoo on his neck which he could flick with his index finger to get any bartender's attention and a free drink. To this day, flicking your neck with your index finger is the national sign for drunkenness, (it is only a matter of time, however, before Yeltsin replaces the signal with something a little more to his liking...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Bottoms Up! | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...Information technology, library materials andother costs essential for sustaining Harvard'sacademic programs continue to rise faster than the[Consumer Price Index]," he said...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tuition to Rise 3.5 Percent; Rate of Increase Declines | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

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