Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survey courses--I'll read everything from Plato to Marx, I thought excitedly. Then I went to my first class, and fought for standing room with hundreds of other people. I listened (there were too many people to see) as the professor told us to fill out index cards; she would select and admit to the course a fraction of those assembled...
...Soviets cannot buy more than 8 million metric tons unless the U.S. has extra supplies. Since stockpiles are ample and a near record harvest is in view, the department's chief economist estimated that the huge Soviet purchases would add only .2% to the cost of living index...
...June increase in the Consumer Price Index was a shade smaller than the May rise, but it was still a full 1%, enough to push inflation for the first half of 1979 to a compound annual rate of 13.2%, more than twice the pace that prevailed when Carter was elected in November...
Their constituents back home would have been astonished. Fifteen mayors sitting in a row with their eyes closed, pointing their index fingers toward an imaginary ball of light. They are responding to commands from a bearded therapist who soothingly urges them to "draw the healing spheres" to them. After playing a tape of Beethoven's Pastoral, the therapist leads his subjects into a mental pasture, where they are to find a cool stream and feel a pleasant breeze...
...most investors the stock market is the Dow Jones industrial average, that index of 30 stocks whose price fluctuations are a barometer of good and bad times. But complaints are common that the Dow is not really a representative market measure. In hopes of improving it, the Wall Street Journal, which selects the stocks that make up the average, has revised it for the first time in 20 years. Result: the Dow now reflects almost 25% of the market value of all 1,566 New York Stock Exchange listings, vs. 19.3% before...