Hence the lower index indicates which column you are in.

Hence the upper index indicates which row you are in.

Also in 1984, the average index of food production per capita indicated a 6% decline from 1974 to 1976.

A low therapeutic index indicates that there is a high risk of toxicity when using the drug.

So far, the index is up for 2006, indicating that investors do not see last year's foreign purchases as a bad omen.

A small index indicates a competitive industry with no dominant players.

The index, he said, was hardly up and indicated that economic growth for the third quarter would be 3 percent or less.

It has four thousand individual entries, and an index indicating further references in other articles.

Two years ago, the index indicated that the Japanese yen was valued at almost twice its real worth.

He added, "The index still indicates that there is a decline in the economy."