Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic shapes of the road signs date back to the Middle Ages. The gypsies used to mark a charcoal sign on the first available white wall of a village on the road. A triangle, the angle downward, stood for a hand with the index finger toward the ground and meant, "Danger, be careful, no hospitality"; the triangle with the angle upward, stood for a hand with the index finger aiming toward the sky and meant, "Go ahead, good place on this road"; a circle meant, "Nice place for the circle of the campfire, a place to rest...
...grisly economic indicator that appears on no official charts is again rising: car-accident deaths. Says Don Mela, the U.S. Department of Transportation's chief mathematical analyst: "If you make a graph plotting auto-accident deaths against the index of industrial production, you will find dips in production coinciding with dips in the rate of auto deaths." Thus, in the recession year of 1970, auto deaths dropped to 4.9 per 100 million miles traveled, from 5.3 in boom-end 1969. The death rate dropped a bit further last year, to an estimated 4.7, despite the economy's creeping...
Captions are also being strengthened. Headlines and captions now become "flush left" instead of centered, and the margins become wider by one-fourth of an inch. The aim is to make our pages easier on the eye. The index now will have a permanent place on page 2 so that readers will not have to hunt for it. Section headings are being placed in either color or gray bars because . . . well, because the editors think they look better that...
...nation was particularly cheered by last week's report that in November, the month in which Phase II got started, the Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of about 2.4%. That was roughly double the October rate but well below the 4.1% average earlier this year. Indeed, from September through November, living costs went up at a rate of only 1.7%. Herbert Stein, the President's chief economist, warns that prices may spurt briefly during December and January because some previously frozen increases will be allowed to rise in Phase II. Still, President Nixon said that...
...stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, climbed 17 points last week, to close at 874. Since Thanksgiving it has jumped 72 points. On the basis of expected increases in earnings for the companies that make up the index, some high mutual fund executives are again indulging in their favorite dreams, forecasting that the Dow will finally top 1,000 next year...