Word: chart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectual and psychological development. And frequently the problem is not detected until the child enters school. That unfortunate delay may be avoided if parents use a simple do-it-yourself eye test developed by the N.S.P.B. The child is simply asked to study E-shaped figures on a chart from a distance of 10 ft. If he can tell which way the arms of the E are pointing on a special line, he is probably using his eyes effectively. If he cannot describe the letters, or can read them with one eye but not the other, he should be taken...
...Base in the dusty Luzon plain of the Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from the instant of their arrival. The exercise was worthy of a major offensive, except that now the object was almost extravagantly peaceful...
...convention of the National Association of Home Builders, many concede that the industry cannot keep up the 1972 pace. Housing starts are expected to slip by 8% to 17%, to a range of 2,000,000 to 2,200,000; one recent Government estimate is 2,180,000 (see chart...
...when the conflict was mostly military, "the light at the end of the tunnel" became a ghastly cliche of hope aroused and dashed over and over again. Now that the conflict is largely diplomatic, is the light at the end of the conference table becoming equally elusive? The fever chart tracing U.S. expectations of success in Viet Nam, it has been said, has a recurrent sawtooth shape: an accelerating rise of optimism just before an abrupt decline...
...poll, Americans have a definite order of preference in spending public money. Controlling crime should come first, followed by helping the elderly, coping with drugs and addicts and cleansing the water and air. National defense, space exploration and foreign aid came in last in that order (see chart). Americans also have some firm and relatively sophisticated ideas about how money should be spent in particular areas...