Word: indexes
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SWITCH TO A "DIET COLA." More formally, adopt a formula for cost of living allowances that increases pensions less rapidly than the consumer price index rises. Inflation has subsided so drastically as to drain the urgency from this proposal. Also, because of changes in the way it is calculated, the CPI no longer overstates inflation by a bit more than one percentage point, as a government panel of economists thought it did two or three years ago. But some overestimation probably remains, and could cause trouble in the hardly impossible event that price increases speed up once more...
...reflect the feeling around campus, or what Dr. Coley more clinically refers to as the "anecdotal experience of Harvard undergraduates." It looks, he reported, "like the number of new cases this year compared to last is actually less." This result is far from decisive, but it is the clearest index of a change that is available since both UHS and the Student Disabilities Office refused to release any numbers for publication...
...infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which simply aggregate search results from other engines.MORE...
...deluxe 15-CD version; $45 for the four-CD version; Windows or Mac) is the easiest and most complete software package available--ideal for beginners. With more than 2 million in sales, it's also the industry leader. The 15-CD package includes a Family Finder index on three CDs, with information on more than 200 million people; two more CDs listing Social Security death-benefits records; five volumes of actual family trees for tens of thousands of families; and an international marriage-records index for more than 1 million couples--and more. The interface is intuitive and easy...
...ANCESTRY.COM www.ancestry.com Links aplenty, including the Social Security Death Index, which has more than 60 million death-benefit-payment records...