Personal Inflation Index Tailored to Your Lifestyle
The government changes CPI calculations but personal costs still diverge. A Personal Price Index lets households track inflation by seven categories, using individual spending shares like 48 percent on housing and 20 percent on food. Compute category indices, apply weights, sum, and compare to regional CPI to gauge personal inflation.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Citibank
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Columbia Crew Aims for Second Space Shuttle Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Joe Engle and Richard Truly prepared the shuttle Columbia for its second mission with a 7 30 a m launch target. The rookies trained on T 38 jets and loaded electrical and environmental system chemicals as weather brightened. Engle 49 and Truly 43 spoke of long awaited dreams and motion sickness testing to ease future orbital flights.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Joe Engle
Richard Truly
Columbia
Clyde Netherton
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Engle
Truly
NASA
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Patrick Air Force Base
Florida
Air Frace
Defense Department
John Young
Navy
Robert Crippen
Engle and Truly
Americans Favor New U S USSR Pact To Limit Nuke Weapons
AP NBC News poll of 1598 adults on Oct 25 26 finds 70 percent favor a bilateral treaty to cap nuclear weapons. Reagan foreign affairs rating steady 45 percent good or excellent. 68 percent foresee possible U S involvement in war within years with 60 percent not worried he will lead to war.
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New York
United States
Soviet Union
Associated Press
NBC News
Reagan
Jimmy
Carter
Leonid Brezhnev
Ap-Nbc
U.S
America
Europe
Sweden Lets Soviet Sub Skipper Be Questioned On Swedish Ship
The Soviet Union agreed to allow interrogation of the grounded skipper by Swedish authorities aboard a Swedish ship outside the military zone. Swedish officials demanded explanations, not just apologies, and will escort and secure the officers. The sub will be refloated after questioning. the Kaliningrad base reportedly continues radio contact with the skipper.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Soviet Union
Foreign Office
Mikhail Jakovlev
Ola Ullsten
Ullsten
Cmdr
Pyotr Gushin
Kaliningrad
Omdr
Lenhart Forsman
Karlskrona
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Tim Peterson
Qne
Town and Country Church of Christ
N. Main
Ottawa
Karlskrona Naval Base
AEP
Betty Crocker
Devil's Food
Hubbard
Ais
Kansas
Ae Tey
Minute Maid
Lawin
Serman Chocolate
Paxson
Old Milwaukee
Cele Ewc Pere
South
Mainee
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