Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brady said another less scientific index--"theJohnny Carson indicator"--also offered evidence ofthe president's slide. "When Johnny Carson startsmaking jokes and the people are laughing atReagan, you know he's in trouble," Brady said...
Meanwhile, the stock market suffered some profound jitters of its own. On the day after disclosure of the SEC subpoenas, the Dow Jones index of 30 blue- chip industrial stocks plummeted 43.31 points, to 1,817.21, the fourth largest drop on record. If anything, the Dow understated the market's nervous collapse. On the New York Stock Exchange, 1,390 issues fell that Tuesday, and only 283 gained. Many of the hardest hit were stocks that had been heavily traded by speculators in the anticipation of takeover action. Later in the week, as opportunistic traders saw many stocks as bargains...
...scientists are looking at why some people are boring, in what ways they can be boring, and just how boring can they get. They've even established a "boringness index...
...second study focused on five-minute conversations between 52 pairs of strangers. Transcripts were reviewed by 12 undergraduates who rated a randomly chosen person in each conversation for boringness. That person's conversation also was studied for grammatical form and communicative intent, and the results compared to his "boringness index...
...complex, computer-assisted trading techniques that, in taking the stock exchanges by storm, have become a major cause of the market's extraordinary peaks and valleys. The most controversial is known as program trading, in which computers, for example, launch massive buy and sell orders for stocks and stock-index futures simultaneously (see following story...