Word: charting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep below deck, with all the mindless certainty of a Ouija board, a marking pen moved by steel fingers glided across a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay. As he followed the pen's thin red line, a Navy lieutenant, cut off from any view of the water, telephoned commands to the bridge. At each command, the helmsman altered course, and the 65-ft. test ship Alan threaded neatly among islands and inlets. Each change in direction and speed was instantly recorded by the moving...
...third quarter, corporate profits rose 11% from a year ago to an annual rate of $27 billion after taxes, close to the peak of $27.8 billion reached during the Korean war. The Government expects that profits will continue to gain during the rest of the year (see chart...
...borrowing ("You get captured by financial obligations rather than enthusiasm to go ahead"). He doesn't want to be bothered with financial details ("I don't understand a profit-and-loss statement, and I don't want to see one. I just want a simple bar chart. If it's up, fine. If it's down, somebody gets chewed...
Injuries and films of Harvard's first three games have prompted coach John Yovicsin to readjust his depth chart for this Saturday's encounter with Columbia's hungry Lions...
Today, after 32 years of dictatorship, the Dominican people have been asked to chart their own future. Many of their present concerns reflect a society allowed to examine itself for the first time. Involved in such thought are the most fundamental questions of man and his relation to society. A chief issue of the summer, for example, became whether illegitimate children deserve equal status under...