Word: chart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S map and chart department recognizes no boundaries. It is located in a room filled with bedspread-size charts, atlases as big as coffee tables and shelves full of materials dealing with such diverse subjects as tennis elbow, wine prices and the geography of the moon. "We try to focus on the main point and dramatize it symbolically," says Jere Donovan, who heads the department and has been a TIME cartographer since...
...cartography while serving with a topographic battalion in North Africa during World War II before going to work as a technical illustrator. Hortens drew the maps that appeared in TIME during the first two weeks of Middle East fighting and applied his skills this week to the Science section chart that shows the path of the Kohoutek comet...
...with great precision how changes in one sector of the economy (inputs) will affect the performance of other sectors (outputs). Building on his pioneering work, Government economists now compile a huge statistical grid showing how much each economic sector buys and sells from every other major sector. Using the chart, they can, for example, calculate how much a decision to slow the building of barracks will reduce the sales not only of the paint industry but also of the chemical firms from which it gets its pigment. Also, planners can decide what changes in the tax structure might increase employment...
Such series as this one, where each man of letters is capsulated between paper covers, have obvious dangers. But they also tend to come up with surprisingly insightful generalities under the inspiration of compression. In German, for instance, there is a similar book on Beckett that contains an elaborate chart of the "genealogy" of Beckett's work. The aim is to show how unified the whole oeuvre is in a movement towards its own final extinction. Molloy is a descendent of Watt, and a cousin to Mercier et Camier; Godot is grandfather to Lessness. Alvarez's book is written...
...strike force of top brass led by Admirals Elmo Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations, and Hyman Rickover, retired naval nuclear-power expert, who met personally with almost every Senator on one item or another up for grabs. New Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger did his part with Congressmen. Using charts, he noted that the outlay requested for fiscal 1974 was the lowest percentage of the gross national product since the end of the Korean War, plummeting from 12% to 5.9%. Expressed in constant 1958 dollars, Pentagon spending has dropped (see chart...