Word: indexes
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CHICAGO--The student newspaper of the University of Illinois has published twice this fall a consumer price index for marijuana, LSD, cocaine and amphetamines...
...economic questions, Reagan was on the attack, pointing to Carter's own "misery index"--the combined figures of inflation and unemployment rates: and nothing that Carter had exceeded a level that he had once called necessary for reelection...
...Monday the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 18.17 points, its steepest drop in more than six months. But later in the week the index rallied to close at 950.68, about a 10-point rise from the week before. A key reason was that many investors rushed to buy oil stocks in expectation that the turmoil in the Persian Gulf would soon push up petroleum prices...
Reagan plans to hammer away at the economic issue, with defense and foreign policy close seconds. In Knoxville, Tenn., he introduced a freshly minted measure of Carter's shortcomings: a "family suffering index," which combines the rising cost of food, fuel and housing along with the unemployment rate. The FSI, charged Reagan, has soared from 24.2 when Carter took office to 77 today. "Carter caused it. He tolerates it. He's going to have to answer to the American people for it." Rea gan still plans to devote much of his remaining time to five key states: Ohio...
...That is a discouraging prospect for American consumers, who last week were told by the Bureau of Labor statistics that food prices in the U.S. rose 1.7% in August, the highest increase in 2½ years. Although fuel costs did not increase at all in August, the Consumer Price Index jumped 0.7%. The Federal Reserve moved late in the week to attack inflation by raising the discount rate, the fee it charges on loans to member banks, from 10% to 11%. In response, banks began pushing up the prune rate...