Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is that the Government uses three basic methods to chart the ebb and flow of U.S. unemployment, and all three need improvement. All are limited surveys and wide open to errors of interpretation. Of the three, the most important-and most controversial-is the Census Bureau's total count of the U.S. labor force (currently about 62 million over the age of 14). The bureau first checks a tiny, carefully chosen sample of the U.S., only 25,000 households in 68 key areas. Then it mathematically projects the figures on the size of the labor force...
Stalking the elusive current patterns of the Gulf Stream and mapping the bottom of the Atlantic, the Atlantis has made voyages totalling almost a million miles, which when mapped on a chart look, like a huge spiderweb across the ocean with its focus at Woods Hole. Assisted by the Caryn, a ninety-seven foot ketch that goes on the shorter cruises, the boats often spend 250 days each year...
...Brown was a credit to the House. Of course, things had not been that way when he was an undergraduate, but then, hard times had come. The Master pulled a little gold star from his desk and glued it carefully in the space following Brown's name on the chart...
...looked at the names on the chart. That made five stars in a row for Brown. Enough to have his name engraved on the plaque in the dining room for The Cleanest. But there were only six names on the plaque. Frogly, Master of the House across the way, boasted twelve names on his plaque. He looked up at the tower on Frogly's House. The giant gold star was fixed right under the weather vane, telling everyone in Cambridge that here was The Cleanest House...
...Master sighed, put away his box of little stars, and let the chart fall amidst the other rubbish on his desk. It was the new system of House assignment, he decided. He never got any of the clean ones...