Word: chart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have placed so large a part of our destiny in the hands of a President, no part of him, from his blood pressure to his thought processes, should escape our scrutiny. Any stockbroker who goes to work in the morning unmindful of an ailing President's fever chart could be sorry by belltime. It is fair for partisans of the Equal Rights Amendment to use a President's relationship with his wife as a gauge of his sincerity about advancing women's affairs...
...done it all so far, winning at every asking and impressively at that. Though lightly raced in his young career, Honest Pleasure has yet to be really tested in any of his races, lending credence to the belief that he is every bit as good as his Racing Form chart indicates...
...diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.), sprightly man, Gould is a technician who pays little attention to corporate earnings or the course of the economy. Using millions of figures dating back more than a century, he follows the lines that stock prices and trading volume trace on charts. He bolsters his chart readings with studies in physics (for the laws of motion), music (for rhythm) and crowd psychology. He has evolved his own gauges of the market, including the "speed-resistance line" (a measure of how far and fast prices have risen or fallen) and the "senti-meter" (a ratio...
...would question the notion that foreign policy needs to be revamped. But eliminating foreign policy altogether is not the only way to revamp it. And while it is certainly beyond the scope of this article to chart the specifics for a new foreign policy, it remains important to stand in militant opposition to the premise that our only choice is between what we have now and what Ravenal proposes. And it is important as well to state explicitly that a system of selective commitments, based on moral principles, or, if you will, on the principles endorsed in the United Nations...
Crucial Test. Even as the weak grow weaker, the strong currencies become yet stronger (see chart). The value of the Swiss franc, the world's solidest currency, has increased 5% since last September, while the West German mark has risen 3%. The dollar, which had been suffering only two years ago, now has won new respect abroad as Europeans become increasingly impressed with the vigor of the U.S. economic recovery...