measure goods

Length units were typically used for measuring goods and building sizes.

But the index for crude prices, measuring goods at the very first stage of production, was inflationary.

Gross domestic product, which measures goods and services produced, grew by 2.3 percent last year, compared with a 4.6 percent increase in 1988.

Energy carries a weight of 7.3 percent in the Consumer Price Index, which covers a basket of directly measured goods and services.

The Bank of Korea reported a loss of $110 million in current accounts, which measure goods, money and services moving in and out of the country, after reporting surpluses since April 2000.

A third index, which measures goods at the intermediate stage of production, rose six-tenths of 1 percent, compared with an average rise of four-tenths of 1 percent in April and May.

In other excavations, archeologists have found distinctive Indus cubical weights, made of chert or agate and used for measuring goods before a transaction, at many sites of Arabian Sea ports.

The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods, which measures goods one step away from being sold to consumers, spurted 1.3 percent last month as energy costs jumped 9.5 percent after having fallen in each of the preceding six months, the Labor Department reported today.