Word: indexes
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...Here the critics-and they include a number of conservative Republicans -have a solid point. Reagan has indeed exempted many major "entitlement" programs, those to which people are automatically "entitled" if they fit certain criteria. These include Social Security pensions, numerous veterans' benefits and Medicare. Such programs are "indexed" to inflation: the faster the Consumer Price Index rises, the more benefits increase-even though the CPI is not a totally accurate measure of the cost of living. The CPI is, for instance, heavily weighted to reflect increases in housing costs, but few of the elderly living on Social Security...
When lies come true, there are not too many places where one can get a grip on life. The idea of time in black writing, for example, of time as an index of progress, or as a context of history, has either no meaning or a dangerous one (Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, struggles to escape from time...
...microfiche system consists of a reader resembling a portable television set and several hundred sheets of microfilm the size of index cards...
...does not think much of his approach. The Vatican's Holy Office has declared Kung a heretic and has forbidden him from teaching Catholic theology, ostensibly for his questioning of the infallibility of the Church. Indeed, in Does God Exist? Kung questions and then denounces the Holy Office, the Index of Forbidden Books, the Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility, and Paul VI's condemnation of birth control and homosexuality. He belongs to the liberal Catholic tradition that Plus IX tried to crush with his Syllabus. These are the liberals who believe the Vatican should shed its "ancient and mediaeval world-view...
Schultze was surprised at Reagan's apparent decision not to press for changes in the way entitlement programs are "indexed," or adjusted to compensate for the impact of inflation. Many Government benefits, including Social Security payments and civil service pensions, rise automatically in tandem with the Consumer Price Index. Schultze said that during the past three years, the CPI had overstated the rise in the cost of living by more than 5% because it gives too much weight to rising home prices and mortgage rates. Before leaving office, the Carter Administration proposed using a more accurate cost of living...