Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortnight ago, the pacesetting 30-share Financial Times stock market index reached an alltime high of 549.2, six points above its previous record in May 1972. Profit taking and some unfavorable corporate reports have since eroded prices somewhat; last week the FT index closed at 504.7, still a spectacular rebound from its nadir of 146 in January...
...psychological, motivational terms, but it ignores the fact that businessmen have homes and families, daughters that have to go to the orthodontist and sons that want to go to sleep-away camp, and that all of these things cost money. Lots of it, and the Cost-of-Living Index isn't going down, not to mention the Cost-of-Living-Well Index. Abstracting the Almighty Dollar from the picture might well give Maccoby a more interesting thesis for his book, but it only distorts the picture like a fun-house mirror. The sad fact is that only the absurdly wealthy...
...about. This is a departure for Lowell, and the reasoning behind it is autobiographical. In his confessional poems, Lowell has always been acutely conscious of his years: they defined him historically, located precisely the jumping-off place for his memories and served as a shorthand index for the variety of personal experience he was likely to undergo...
Bosworth defends the Administration's cautious approach to inflation so far, but he is determined to have the council play a more aggressive role from now on. For example, to provide the White House with a sharper picture of inflation, the council will begin keeping an "early warning index" by charting day-by-day cost and price developments in a few bellwether industries such as steel, autos and construction. Says Bosworth: "In the past, the council churned out studies and recommendations that may have been good but went nowhere. My job is to see that our work gets transmitted...
...vacation. One thousand two hundred and fifty students were jammed together in sweltering, un-airconditioned dorms in the 101° F. Florida heat. There was all the excitement of a library reading room at high noon: teen-agers hunched in corners, muttering over dog-eared textbooks or stacks of index cards. The prevailing sense of humor was as old as the Roman hills: bantering buttons with such slogans as DA MI OSCULUM LATINE LOQUOR (Kiss me, I speak Latin) and ATLAS IS TOO STONED TO CARE...