Word: aci
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress promptly funded IRS computer modernization. Before, the IRS had had a plan and no money; now it had money and no plan. No matter. It initiated a flood of programs (a state-of-the-art computer was necessary just to keep track of all the acronyms--ACI, AES, ALSS, AUR, FAISR, ICS, IMS). But each system was designed independently to meet specific needs within the empire. All systems would be go by the year 2001, the agency blandly assured Congress. With all the requests and funding, the final price tag for what ultimately became known as the Tax Systems...
...that folks are motivated by desire and ease, rather than self-improvement or showiness, when it comes to the private act of actually turning the pages. Hence, a formula that indicates what percentage of books sold are really read. The Fully Read Index , (FRI) equals the Author Comfort Index (ACI) times the Simple Prose Coefficient...
Hawking, with an ACI of 1 and an SPC of 3, gets an FRI of 3; of every 100 people who bought A Brief History of Time, three finished it. Rushdie (ACI 1 X SPC 2) weighs in at a solid 2%. In the middle range, John le Carre has a fairly high ACI (8), thanks to his 25 years of best-sellerdom, along with a demanding style ameliorated somewhat by the propulsions of suspense (SPC 6). His FRI of 48% means that of the 530,280 copies of The Russia House sold, 254,534.4 consumers finished...