Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voyeur of the earthly, the bizarre, the cosmic. Frustrated by the naked breast of a sunbathing woman who misreads his truly beachcombing intentions, confused in his reading of the heavens against a cardboard constellation chart, he shuns both celestial bodies and tanned ones, for the "certainty" in the refraction index of his own clumsy corrective lenses. Like a misplaced, compulsive Descartes, checking the stars to make sure nothing has changed, Mr. Palomar makes rules for himself: he must stick to what he sees...
...CHAPTER-SKETCHES of "Mr. Palomar" compose a fancy scheme for all possible permutations of human experience. At the end of the book, Calvino decides to let the Reader in on his secret. He has thrown in an "Index" at the end of a collection of stories. The index looks like a table of contents in which Calvino reveals that what had seemed like a zigzag wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number...
...that any increases will remain mild. They noted that labor costs, which make up some 65% of the retail value of most products, are continuing to rise at a modest pace. Raw material prices are also stable. The Labor Department reported last week that in August the Producer Price Index fell .3%, the sharpest decline in more than two years. Said Greenspan: "Overall, there is just no evidence of any acceleration of inflation...
Arguing that new weapons rise faster in price than do consumer goods, the Pentagon for the past four years has used an inflation index about 30% higher than the Consumer Price Index. But the GAO found that after the impact of contractor cost overruns is subtracted, prices for weapons and other Defense purchases prove to have "increased at about the same rate as prices of all goods in the U.S. economy." Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, claims the Pentagon used its $37 billion cushion to boost contractor profits and shuffle money to pinched programs...
Janeway has been cautious about introducing major changes in the Globe. He developed a weekly science-technology section, spruced up the design and added a news summary and people column to the second page. When he experimented with an index on the top of Page One in April, staffers complained about the wasted display space, and Janeway moved it several weeks later. "Where I am not strong, I try to get good people to help me," says Janeway. "I've tried to encourage people close to me to criticize...