Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitor aside. She said she was certain she would enjoy her new life, but for now it was something of a strain. They had had to sell their home and furnishings, coming here carrying only clothes. The worst part, she said, was leaving her relatives. Then she ran her index fingers from the corners of her eyes down her cheeks, showing how she had cried...
...burst of GNP growth was accompanied by continued low inflation. The May Consumer Price Index climbed just 0.2%, down from April's moderate 0.4% gain. Two months of falling food prices have helped keep living costs in check. A drop in the price of autos also contributed to the May performance...
...prospect of continued growth and the drop in interest rates helped spur a burst of buying on Wall Street. On Friday the Dow Jones industrial average surged 24.42 points. Analysts said that investors were taking large amounts of - cash from expired index options and futures contracts and putting them into stocks. The Dow Jones finished the week...
...Every aspect of production was negotiated, a sharp variance from the dictatorial New York style. "Evan didn't want photographs in the book," Turnbull remembers. "We felt they might make it more salable to history buffs. Evan won." But the author conceded another point: he provided a detailed index...
...barking dogs and radioactive babies. Another is Jean-Michel Basquiat, 24, much hyped as a sort of art-world Eddie Murphy and hence especially popular with Los Angeles collectors, his untutored and zappy scrawls routinely praised for their "energy." (This anxious hope for signs of energy is a sure index of cultural flabbiness.) But for postgraffiti art the writing is already on the wall, and such careers, rolling in their limos to oblivion, remind one of Robert Graves' Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist...