In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes the consumer price index which is used to find inflation rates. The bureau states that the consumer price index âis a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.â.
The earth ulis called a blue planet because of the presence of abundance of water in it. About 70 percent of the earth's crust is covered with water. And this imparts it with a blue colour as seen from the space.
In the beginning, Earth was not a nice place. Steve Munsinger/Photo Researchers Inc. This period has a name; it's called the Hadean Eon, from the ancient Greek, Hades â basically, a polite term for hellish.. Hell melted all the rocks on the Earth's surface, and when it's as hot as Hades, you can't have life, either. The Earth had to wait for its first living creature until later â till things cooled and quieted down. That, anyway, is what we used to think. What The Little Rock Is Telling Us ...