Quotes About Index

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

In Italy, the Index's ban was enforced. Bibles were publicly and ceremonially burned, like heretics; even literary versions of scriptural stories in drama or poetry were frowned on. As a result, between 1567 and 1773, not a single edition of an Italian-language Bible was printed anywhere in the Italian peninsula.

The S&P 500 Index originally contained exactly 425 industrial, 25 rail, and 50 utility firms, but these groupings were abandoned in 1988 in order to maintain, as Standard & Poor's claimed, an index that included "500 leading companies in leading industries of the economy.

CVS Corporation, which in 1957 entered the S&P 500 Index as Melville Shoe Corp.,

At the end of 2012, the yield on nominal bonds was about 2 percent. The only way that bonds could generate a 7.8 percent real return is if the consumer price index fell by nearly 6 percent per year over the next 30 years. Yet a deflation of this magnitude has never been sustained by any country in world history.

It is interesting that an investor who has some knowledge of the principles of equity valuations often performs worse than someone with no knowledge who decides to index his portfolio.

Tilt your portfolio toward value by buying passive indexed portfolios of value stocks or, fundamentally weighted index funds. Chapter

An imaginary composite index can be applied to measure an environment's complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity, which we'll call the CUA factor.

Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

Global Health Security Index," a sober report of a world largely unprepared to deal with a pandemic.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

I ain't seen you in Junto's before, baby,' said Boots Smith. 'I don't go there very often,' she said. There was something faintly contemptuous about the way he said 'baby.' He made it sound like 'bebe,' and it slipped casually, easily, out of his mouth as though it were his own handy, one-word index of women.

Nor is woman to blame if the question of her education occupies so much attention. The demands made are not hers--the continual agitation is not primarily of her creating. It is simply the tendency of the age, of which it is only the index. It would be as much out of place to blame the weights of a clock for the moving of the hands, while, acted upon by an unseen, but constant force, they descend slowly but steadily towards the earth.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

public class MergeBU { private static Comparable[] aux; // auxiliary array for merges // See page 271 for merge() code. public static void sort(Comparable[] a) { // Do lg N passes of pairwise merges. int N = a.length; aux = new Comparable[N]; for (int sz = 1; sz < N; sz = sz+sz) // sz: subarray size for (int lo = 0; lo < N-sz; lo += sz+sz) // lo: subarray index merge(a, lo, lo+sz-1, Math.min(lo+sz+sz-1, N-1)); } }

The P300 (whose name derives from the fact that it is a positive wave that occurs, in adults, about 300 milliseconds after the onset of a stimulus) is perhaps the closest thing we have to an index of conscious mental experience.

Self-starter, eh?" he heard the presumptuous pilot say. "I know how to operate that. What's this little mirror for? Oh, yes, to index the curves. Pshaw! I can't go wrong if I watch that." "Can't you? Oh, my!" muttered Dave.

I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I should be thought a crank but nations do not, I think, ascend on such tomatoes.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

The index fund always gives you the market return.

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.