The S&P/Case-Shiller national index of home prices rose in April,May and June.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

"The BSE Sensex, which is the bell weather index of the country, is down 425 points.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

After rising steadily for more than a year, the index of leading economic indicators actually slipped by .1 percent in April, according to a private research group.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

They used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index to define words like obese and overweight.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Those with ring fingers longer than index fingers did better on the math part of a standardized test than the reading part.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

And another British study reported last year that people whose index finger is shorter than their ring finger are at higher risk of osteoarthritis.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Body mass index,or BMI, is a measure of a person's weight in relation to height.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Guinea Bissau has Africa's second lowest rating on the U.N.'s Human Development Index measuring life expectancy,education, and standards of living.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Six of 10 components of the index deteriorated, including new home permit applications,jobless claims, and factory materials deliveries.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

According to the organization's press freedom index, Thailand was ranked 130th out of 175 countries in 2009.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Fears of a wider-ranging debt default affecting other banks drove Japan's Nikkei index down two percent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

And that's part of the reason why South Korea scores badly in the index."

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Dr.Kausalya Pendyal tells her patients in Richmond, Virginia before they go outside to check the Air Quality Index - a U.S.government assessment of pollutants in the air.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"I believe that most Hong Kong people will feel that we have won the first battle, able to control the spread of infection from the first index patient,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.08