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9015
"Great Depression." With an xref from Depression ~Judi...
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Apr 1, 2008
7:09 am
9016
... depressions _see_ Great Depression Great Depression (1929) or depression ....drug treatments ....author's bouts of depressions ....cyclical causes ....and...
James Lamb
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Apr 1, 2008
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I would agree. You could also date-qualify it: Great Depression (1929). Carolyn Weaver ... From: "Elliot Linzer" <elinzer@...> To:...
Carolyn Weaver
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Apr 1, 2008
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9018
That was my original take on it. Then I got to thinking. Wasn't 1929 the year of the stock market crash in October. I would not be surprised if the Great...
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Apr 1, 2008
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9019
According to Wikipedia (and yes, I recognize that Wiki has to be taken with a grain of salt!) the Great Depression is considered to have started with the Oct....
Carolyn Weaver
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Apr 1, 2008
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9020
Thanks to those who responded to my query about combining entries. This book is one of those books that's disorganized and inconsistent, with a billion...
Rae
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Apr 1, 2008
4:19 pm
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Rae, I don't know anything about this field, so I don't know if what you're facing is simply poor writing. Or maybe not poor writing per se, but a publisher's...
Paula Presley
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Apr 1, 2008
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9022 Ina Gravitz
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Apr 2, 2008
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9023
Thanks for the suggestions. Great Depression with x-ref from Depression era (used once in passing in the book) seems to be the way to go. Time period is early...
Jeanne Moody
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Apr 3, 2008
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9024
Hello All A book with lots of references to UN organizations. What is protocol? UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 94 UN Human Development Index...
Kenny H
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Apr 3, 2008
2:36 am
9025
I like the second version best, and I've used it from time to time. ...still don't know the "correct" way. I've used both kinds of arrangements, in different...
Paula Presley
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Apr 3, 2008
2:50 am
9026
... Good choice, and thank your writer for his omission of 1929. There will be differences of opinion on what year the Great Depression started. Particularly...
Joel S. Berson
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Apr 3, 2008
3:27 am
9027
Ken, I used to do some indexing for the United Nations and for UNICEF. Some of the UN agencies are largely autonomous, others are not. The safest way to...
Elliot Linzer
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Apr 3, 2008
7:24 am
9028
... I think that is a "recession" rather than a "depression" of which there is no clear definition, I think. The usual definition is that a "recession" is when...
James Lamb
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Apr 3, 2008
11:26 am
9029
My error -- it is indeed a recession, not a depression, that is defined by two quarters of declining economy. I still believe, though, that it would be...
Joel S. Berson
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Apr 3, 2008
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9030
I used "Depression era" recently ... worked for that particular book .... ... From: "James Lamb" <james@...> To:...
mhchoate
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Apr 3, 2008
1:37 pm
9031
I've usually done it with United Nations (UN) and specific organizations as subheads like your second example if each organization has only a few page...
Jeanne Moody
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Apr 3, 2008
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9032
... Which appears excellent to me. If there's enough space, I'd double-post in the line of Millennium Project, United Nations Because users might more likely...
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Apr 3, 2008
6:24 pm
9033
... I can see no reason at all for doing these as subheads - it doesn't save any space (as UN is probably the same size as an indent); they aren't aspects; it...
James Lamb
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Apr 3, 2008
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9034
I hope you post your solution, when you decide (or have decided). This is a common situation, and I "reinvent the wheel" every other project or so....and each...
mhchoate
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Apr 3, 2008
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9036
Can it be adapted to work efficiently for CMS-style BoB index, eg. via macros etc.? Any setup tips?...
Richard Comfort
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Apr 4, 2008
4:34 pm
9037
... No. It can't. I looked at this in great detail when I considered starting indexing (and spent over a week writing VBA code). It would be possible to write...
James Lamb
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Apr 4, 2008
5:00 pm
9038
It can be, if the book is only about 10 pages long! That is, t NO! Not unless you are a well-trained computer programmer with not only knowledge of programming...
Paula Presley
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Apr 4, 2008
5:29 pm
9039
You may be interested to read about Seth Maislin's experience indexing in Excel. Below is a link to his website; then look for the Indexing with Excel link on...
Janice Flatoff
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Apr 4, 2008
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9040
As a possible interesting aside, years ago, when Microsoft first got into really heavy publishing of software documentation, I was told by an indexer working...
Charles
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Apr 4, 2008
5:39 pm
9041
... Thanks for the *very* useful replies. My goal here is to try to get an author-written index into a delimited text file so I can import and edit it. Would...
Richard Comfort
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Apr 4, 2008
10:08 pm
9042
The RDA for vitamin D is 400 IU daily. The latest research shows it should be 3x to 5x that amount. Do any of you take vitamin D supplements? Have any of you...
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Apr 4, 2008
11:32 pm
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Hi Judi, My daughter and I visited about this kind of thing only recently. Over the past gazillion years, I've learned: 1. Never, ever take more than the RDA...
Paula Presley
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Apr 5, 2008
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9044
Latest research (in the news a LOT in the last few weeks) shows that most people are deficient in Vitamin D, and the RDA is being reevaluated. With my...
Carolyn Weaver
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Apr 5, 2008
12:46 am
9045
I heard a really interesting interview on one of the local public access stations (KVMR from Nevada City, great station) last week-an interview with Dr. Dowd,...
Kenny H
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