Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even take humanity as some kind of moral index, who say that to be human is to be good and our problems all arise from not being human enough. I think I take a rather darker view. We must of necessity lose our humanity all the time...
...compensations. It's a brutal life. I lived on a farm, but am really not myself a rural creature. I really love New York City...at any rate I'm not sure that rural life or a big commune is an answer...The earth and agriculture are an index of something we need and are rapidly losing, the human animal is geared to interlock with all kinds of raw natural environments. The coming civilization--that doesn't mean just here, but worldwide--must accommodate people, it's a commonplace, I guess, ecology...
...December, the first full month after the freeze was over. They were right. For wholesale prices, the increase turned out to be .7%-a sharp rise but still less than the one that "I had been prepared to defend," said Chief Presidential Economist Herbert Stein. When the consumer price index for December was released last week, Stein still felt comfortable. The nation's basic cost-of-living measure rose .4%. Though high for a month, it showed that inflationary pressure pent up during the freeze was less than expected. Moreover the rise in consumer prices...
That at least would prove he exists. For today, Howard Hughes is surrounded by such mystification that some entertain the ultimate theory: he is dead, a phantom evoked and impersonated by a band of conspirators in order to keep his holdings together. If nothing else, this conjecture is an index of how the invisible and difficult man stirs fantasies...
Does that confusing system work? In reply, Grayson cited the ultimate aggregate: the Price Commission has already held some 200 firms that account for a quarter of the entire U.S. gross national product to increases averaging only 1.5% over the next year. Another indicator was the index of industrial commodities, many of which are controlled. They rose .3% in December, the first full month after the freeze, compared with an average .5% in the six months before the freeze. As expected, though, there was a much bigger bulge in overall wholesale prices. They went up .7%, largely because of uncontrolled...