Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Siege. In the past year, the Labor Department's index of wholesale prices of gasoline, heating oil and other refined petroleum products has risen a walloping 40.4%. According to some estimates, within the next few months regular gasoline will probably climb an average of 9¢, to 50¢ per gal. Home heating fuel is expected to almost double in price, to 40¢ or more. Kerosene, diesel oil and jet fuel will all climb proportionately. Rising fuel costs will increase the price of electric power. Altogether, soaring fuel prices will pump $8 billion to $10 billion of pure inflation into the economy...
Pemagon Papers (Gravel Edition), Boston, Beacon Press, 1972. (Four volumes plus critical index and essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn...
Allen, a minus 36 handicap player who practiced 45 hours each week this summer, used the Chinese penholder grip--thumb and index finger wrapped around the handle, with three fingers behind the paddle. His quick offensive strokes symied the Crimson...
Between the end of 1972 and last month, when the latest study was completed, the consumer-confidence index plummeted 19 points to 71.8. That was a much sharper decline than in the 1969-1970 period just preceding the worst of the last recession. The report asserts that public gloom about all kinds of shortages and weaknesses in national leadership will soon show up in substantially reduced buying trends and that "a recession by early next year is possible, perhaps even probable...
...clutching at her chest, she was becoming faint and turning blue. What could he do? The symptoms were all too familiar to Prutting. He calmly advised his caller to lean the woman over a chair, pound her on the back and reach down her throat with his middle and index fingers to dislodge the obstruction. The doctor heard loud thumping sounds, and soon a relieved voice came back on the Line. "It was only a piece of beef," said the executive. "She's fine...