Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...index for finished goods, items one stop short of the retail level, stood at 111.0 in January, meaning a hypothetical selection of goods that cost $100 in 1982 would have cost $111 last month, up one dollar from the previous month...
...nation will get this year's first look at inflation on the consumer level when the January Consumer Price index report is released in two weeks. Consumer prices increased 4.4 percent...
...reasoning seems strange. What criteria, one wonders, are used to categorize Core courses as "freshman-sophomore" courses? Level of difficulty, perhaps? Number of required readings? And isn't the Core supposed to be a section of the curriculum that permits any student to take any course offered, regardless of year? That priority seems to have gotten lost somewhere...
Although Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone limited the enrollment in "Jazz" to 400, he gave preference to juniors and seniors, which is the only sensible way to run a lottery. But the fact that students swarmed to a slightly modified version of an introductory level departmental course reflects badly on the Core as a whole. It indicates that Core courses are not as different "by design" as Core officials had hoped they would...
True Believer aspires to a loftier goal than the camp of L.A. Law or Night Court. With black-and-white flashbacks and and an overdose of overhead spiraling camera pans, True Believer attempts to be more than the B-level shlock it actually is. You aren't supposed to take the antics of T.V. lawyers Dan Fielding or Arnie Becker seriously. But you aren't supposed to laugh at Dodd...