Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article "How Does This #%0@! Thing Work?" [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, June 18] is long overdue. I have watched the quality of instruction books deteriorate for years. The root cause is that manufacturers are cheap. The almost universal flaw in how-to guides is a poor index. When our range top turned into a fireworks display, I checked the mail-order catalogue to see what it would cost to replace the unit. There was nothing in the catalogue index under "cookstoves" or "stoves, cook." In earlier years, catalogues had every conceivable synonymous entry...
Karpov said the concept of an aggregated index of destructive potential that discriminated against MlRVed ICBMs was "based on artificial distinctions [between bombers and missiles] and was clearly designed to emasculate our strategic forces...
Because they are often the clearest index to a painter's intentions; finished or fragmentary, they are the deposit left by the process of image forming, the residue of the darlings and probings that constitute pictorial thought...
...some people had record players but not all. WHRB's classical music was very popular, as was classical music in general. The smoker always had someone willing to talk for a while. The dorms each had a big study room with big tables good for the stacks of index cards and endless yellow legal pads...
...measure the health of the U.S. economy, suggested by the late economist Arthur Okun, is the discomfort index, a sum of the unemployment and inflation rates. In November 1980, that yardstick stood at 20.2% (12.7% inflation and 7.5% unemployment). On Election Day this year, TIME'S economists predict, the discomfort index will be only 12.7% (5.4% inflation and 7.3% unemployment...