Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pistol cracks-blanks, but as jolting as the real thing. It's the first murder scene, and Catherine Slade, the actress playing Lulu, calls out for champagne. Someone makes a popping noise with his index finger and mouth...
...Webster-Collegiate, with which the OAD is intended to compete, still probably has the edge. Despite its smaller type, Webster's vastly greater scope, superior graphics (the OAD has none) and convenient thumb index (not available in the OAD) and $11.95 price tag make it still the better...
With inflation hovering at 18% in January, February and March, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, the Federal Reserve began pressing down hard on the money supply, interest rates rose and business activity plunged. In April the dimensions of the slump, which wound up cutting overall economic output by 9.6% at an annual rate in the second quarter, alarmed even the Federal Reserve, which reversed itself and began feeding money and credit back into the economy. In the process, the cost of loan money dropped, the slide into recession halted, and by late summer business was showing tentative signs...
...patterned after Proposition 13 were defeated in Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Utah and South Dakota. Ohio voters, however, endorsed new methods of computing property taxes on homes and farms that allow for inflation, and Missouri voters approved an amendment to tie all state tax increases to the federal Consumer Price Index...
...poor quarterly reports show that some U.S. corporations have yet to escape from the mire of recession, despite signals that the slump is over. The Government reported last week that its index of leading economic indicators, which seeks to predict future business trends, jumped 2.4% in September, the fourth consecutive monthly increase. Yet interest rates continue to rise like an incoming tide. Major banks last week hiked the rate they charge their best corporate customers another half point to 14.5%. That could easily snuff out any strong economic recovery, and it may mean that business reports for the fourth quarter...