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...example of how the technology typically works, consider another Colorado school district: St. Vrain Valley. School administrators spend hours at the start of each school year scanning several points on the student's right index finger. "The information is saved within our system - it doesn't go anyplace else," says Shelly Allen, director of nutrition services for the 23,000-student district. When the student reaches the end of the line, she places an index finger on a pad about the size of a car's garage opener. Her name, and sometimes an image of her face, appears...
About a dozen Crimson Reading staff members and volunteers had been relying on stealthily writing down the ISBN numbers on small notepads and index cards, said Crimson Reading’s director, Jon T. Staff...
...magician, just a very competent central-bank chief with a knack for being in the right place at the right time (not only at the Fed: as a young man, he studied music alongside future saxophone great Stan Getz, learned statistics from the guy who devised the Index of Leading Economic Indicators and thought his first deep thoughts at the personal prodding of philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand...
...expect for our current financial growth. The target for neutrality is about four percent—that’s reasonable.” Stocks surged after the Fed announcement. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 2.5 percent at 13,739.39 and the Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks closed up nearly 3 percent at 1,519.78. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
Elberse used the index to examine whether a star’s addition to a cast affected the movie’s stock value...