Word: indexes
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Such freelance vigilantism is an index of how sorely provoked the armed forces have been by leftist terrorists over the past six years. Only a week after the U.N. kidnaping, the guerrillas staged one of their most cold-blooded coups to date: the assassination of Federal Police Chief Cesareo Cardozo, 50, an army general. Using a teen-age girl. Ana Maria González, to make friends with Cardozo's daughter, they managed to plant a bomb under the general...
Spiraling inflation was the major factor that turned the 1971-73 boom years into the worst global recession since the 1930s. Two of the hallmarks of the last inflation are once more highly visible: rising commodity prices (one key index has climbed 30% since last November) and sharp increases in the money supply in some countries, notably France (where it is currently growing at an annual rate...
...take from it whatever clicks of recognition apply to them, or to their friends and loved ones. Indeed, some of the sharpest insights into the human personality have come not from psychologists but from writers, many of whom are also cited in the 50 pages of footnotes, bibliography and index that accompany my book...
...Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, even mused that a lot of experts overlooked the important role of the automobile. The incredible mobility of the American worker destroyed the conventional theories. Added a White House economic strategist, "Unemployment statistics can no longer be used as an index of hardship." For this season anyway, that may be the epitaph of the old jobs issue as politicians have known and loved...
...wholesale price index stayed about flat in early 1976 before jumping up in April. The May figures indicate that that leap was an aberration. Food prices went up much less in May than in April; industrial commodity prices rose hardly at all. A better guide to the rate at which inflation is subsiding is a comparison over a longer period: during the past twelve months the wholesale price index has risen only a rather modest...