Word: charting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chart Researchers Claire Barnett and Nina Wilson put in an equally painstaking few weeks collecting the necessary statistics for the commercial time chart that runs along with the cover story. TV networks would not release programming logs, so the girls had to spell each other as they monitored a complete three-network "commercial day." Everywhere they went-to the office, to parties, and through all their household chores-they carried their stopwatches with them. One or the other of them was never far from the sight and sound of a TV set. "The hardest part was learning to 'tune...
Soon tragedy shatters Waugh's invented cosmos. He throws triple ones three times in a row, and the "Extraordinary Occurrences Chart" demands that the next batter shall die. But the next man up is Damon Rutherford, most brilliant rookie pitcher in the history of the association. Waugh loves Damon like a son, but the necessary laws that hold the cosmos together cannot be broken. Damon Rutherford dies...
...rays, Cuneo found that two bullets had entered his body. One had penetrated his right armpit, then burrowed upward through fat and muscle, lodging just under the skin of his neck, two centimeters from his spine. The other had penetrated Kennedy's head just behind his right ear (see chart...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan took over as director of the Center in 1966, trend-predictors expected him to chart a more policy-oriented course than his predecessors, Martin Meyerson and James Q. Wilson. While the basic orientation of the Center has remained armchair--and to all indication will remain so--the Center has begun to do policy-advising ("staff studies") with clients or agencies that request assistance, much as a consulting firm would...
...coalition partner in a series of effective but unpopular anti-inflationary curbs that pinched consumer pocketbooks and cut back government expenditures on the promised social reforms. His United Socialists paid the price at the polls, winding up with a significantly reduced slice of Italy's political pizza (see chart...