Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College Board reported that in the past fifteen years college costs have almost doubled, far outpacing family incomes and the consumer price index...
...still missing that key bit of information: her Social Security number. I visited Deep Data, whose Flake Index promises "a veritable gold mine of data." I paid my $20 and got the same lien information I'd already seen...
...good times continue to roll, and Americans are proving that they believe it: consumer confidence in the economy has reached its highest level in 28 years. With stock markets surging to record levels, with both unemployment and inflation low, the Conference Board reported that the consumer confidence index rose to 127.1 in May. It was the highest rating since the index stood at 131.7 in August 1969. Because consumer spending accounts for nearly two-thirds of the nation's economic activity, the reports sent the Dow down in early trading on fears that the news meant a too-rapid acceleration...
...index of social reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized...
...numbers showed inflation remained dormant. Don't put away the Dramamine just yet. The markets were jolted again on Friday after the jobless rate sank to a near 24-year low of 4.9%. Very inflationary. Later in the day, however, Washington's announcement of a budget deal sent the index soaring...