Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whereabouts has given prices a sharp if brief boost. Some samples: on Jan. 27, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped ten points after a Kissinger news conference disclosed some details of his previously secret trips to Paris to confer with North Vietnamese negotiators. On May 3, the Dow index climbed more than eight points in the first two hours of trading on the mere rumor that Kissinger was in Paris again (then the Dow tumbled more than ten points the same day when the White House denied that he was wrapping up a deal with Hanoi). The average rose...
...Books of the Western World, a 54-volume set of 443 works by 74 authors (from Homer to Freud), which was published in 1952. To help readers explore those works, he classified man's search for wisdom into 102 basic ideas (from "Angel" to "World") and fashioned an index which he called the Syntopicon, meaning "collection of topics." It directs a reader exploring the ideas to every mention of them in the Great Books, plus the Bible...
...year will have to live with levels of inflation and joblessness that they would have thought unbearable only a short time ago. Most of the economists think that price rises will equal or exceed this year's likely 3.4%. Eckstein predicts a 3.9% increase in the consumer price index-which is moderate compared to Europe's inflation, but excessive by past U.S. standards. Unemployment, the economists believe, will average around 5%, v. the 4% that is usually considered "full employment." The reason is by now familiar: super-rapid growth in the numbers of people, especially youths and women...
...once cold eyes had assumed remarkable warmth. George McGovern's mouth, however, was a disaster-too weak and narrow for a winner. Asano reconfirmed his diagnosis with palmistry. Sure enough, enlarged photos of the Nixon hands showed an unmistakably straighter head line, which begins between the thumb and index finger and runs across the palm...
...half of the year, the general trend had been up, but now a new pattern is emerging: in each of the last two weeks the Dow has spurted to a 44-month high of slightly under 974, then fallen back. Last week's drop was precipitous, carrying the index to a close...