Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College Board reported that in the past 15 years college costs have almost doubled, far outpacing family incomes and the consumer price index...
...a.k.a. the mild-mannered computer kingpin, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Last week, after Gates agreed to pump $1 billion into Comcast Corp., Wall Street revalued the entire industry upward by tens of billions of dollars. A buyers' panic rippled through the cable world, and the Standard & Poor's index of cable stocks rose...
...seriously.' Like, pimp is slang for cool. As in 'Oh, my God, that's so pimp!'" Cool, in other words. Competition from such global giants as Chanel and Revlon amuses her. "Their ads are, like, 'We'll tell you what's hip.'" She puts her green-tipped index fingers to her temples. "I'm, like, 'O.K., Grandma, tell me about...
Norwood developed the Employment Cost Index and made the Consumer Price Index, a measure of the cost of a representative "basket of goods," into a more accurate indicator. She also chaired the Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation from...
...time, the bequest was valued at 800 pounds by Mass. Gov. John Winthrop, according to University archives. How many cows that bought you, I am not sure. But consulting the British Consumer Price Index (a measure of the nation's inflation) from 1650 to 1990, we find that the gift is comparable to 200,000 pounds, or about $360,000. That...