Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekly sales figures to our data-processing department, which maintains strict confidentiality about the numbers. Dessauer then worked out a formula that assigns a statistical value to each store, reflecting its representative role in the sample. Figures for the two giant chains, for example, are weighted to approximate their actual percentage of total U.S. book sales...
Conventional radar stations on which Tornado Alley still depends are capable of picking up certain telltale signs that can presage tornadoes, including so-called hook echoes-reflections from areas of heavy precipitation surrounding a rotating parcel of air. But they cannot detect actual movement within the storm. By contrast, Doppler radar not only measures the direction of air flows, but actually clocks the speeds of raindrops and ice particles as they are whirled about in a brewing tornado...
...Preppie* label derives, of course, from the clothes in which young aspirants to the gentry are expected to show up at the better preparatory schools on either side of the Atlantic. The term, however, does little justice to the actual look, which, with imagination and some bullion, does anything but turn a woman into an honorable schoolboy. The clothes are neat, crisp, classic; with various permutations, they can be romantic and understatedly sexy. The time-honored Fair Isle sweater, for example, now comes in bright, balletic colors as well as the traditional pastel yellows and blues. Madras jackets and Bermuda...
...present policies are little changed but there is a modest tax reform in 1981 reducing personal and corporate taxes. It is not a worst-case model, rather just a trend projection. For 1980-85 it sees GNP growth at 2.7%, productivity growth at 1.4%, core inflation up as actual inflation (CPI) drops, and long-term interest rates at 10.34%--all figures worse than the traditional performance level of the U.S. economy...
Substituting depth for breadth, the concentration's requirements, Goldfard argues, are the department's effort to systematically and rigorously confront common human beliefs and perceptions without the limitation of forcing these ideas into distinct periods. While the actual requirements are not excessive--only six courses--many concentrators resent the required logic course because the material is too technical. "It was mathematics, not humanities. We just learned to work with mathematical systems and equations," James L. Matory '82, who switched from Philosophy to Social Anthropology after one semester, says. Although he readily admits that students experienced in math tend...