Word: indexes
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...advanced" styles), and as such it is the one regular national survey of American art held by a major U.S. museum. It pretends to be plain reportage, but it is nothing of the sort -- art-world pressures on it run too deep for that. Still, it serves as an index to the current scene and holds a mirror of sorts up to American painting...
...Federal Reserve Board is able to let mortgage and other interest rates decline because inflation seems dormant. The Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose at a moderate 4.6% annual rate in April and at a 4.2% clip for the first four months of the year. Inflation has been about 4% since 1982, and TIME's economists forecast that this pace will continue through the rest...
...last month, fueling criticism of the government's austerity prescriptions even from a member of Thatcher's Cabinet. Energy Minister Peter Walker, a moderate who is a contender to succeed Thatcher, advocated drastic action to combat the 13.5% unemployment rate. Until recently, Britain's low inflation index had been one of the government's points of pride; last week the rate stood at 6.9%, up from 5.1% a year ago and the highest since...
...weakness in the economy would make the plight of minority youths even worse. The Commerce Department reported last week that the index of leading economic indicators, a gauge that attempts to predict future business trends, dropped .2% in March, portending sluggishness for the rest of the year...
...Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under the tutelage of the Austrian ambassador to Venice, drawings and prints had been regarded mainly as curiosities or reference objects and were seldom collected in a systematic way. Albert was the first to focus methodically on drawings as an index to the development of artists, while dividing his collection chronologically and by schools; though not a writer, he was one of the fathers of art history...