Word: data
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain knowledge of just how badly off the country is. Statistics have been kept only since 1930, and their basis-reports of known offenses submitted to the FBI by local authorities-is seriously flawed. In some categories, accurate comparisons between eras and areas are impossible because methods of collecting data have changed and local police departments vary in efficiency and candor...
...Angeles Times correspondents, compiled this account of the Johnson Administration's diplomatic efforts to arrange peace in Vietnam after an elaborate research effort which took them literally all over the world. The record they relate is dismal at best, but their conclusion, like their treatment of their data, is low-key and pleasantly devoid of the rhetoric which so often invades studies of the Vietnam problem...
...Secret Search for Peace combines exhaustive reporting, heaps of new data and gentle hints at broader theoretical issues in a readable and levelheaded volume. It is journalism at its best...
...response to Lovell's statement. But Lovell had strong evidence to back up his story. Zond 5 had been tumbling as it approached the moon, he said, but it was finally stabilized. It passed about 1,200 miles from the lunar surface, radioing back great bursts of data and even voice transmissions-probably from a tape recorder. Finally there was a dramatic change in the transmissions and an enormous increase in power. "The whole exercise-the time of the launching, the content of the signals and the test of the voice transmitter-leaves no doubt whatsoever that this...
...heart. Early this year, when cigarette-making Lorillard Corp. tried to merge with Schenley Industries, it was rebuffed in favor of the Glen Alden Corp. Meanwhile, Loew's Theaters Inc. was scorned when it attempted to merge with Commercial Credit Corp., which opted instead to merge with Control Data Corp. Last week the two losers got together on the rebound. In a complicated swap of Lorillard stock for that of Loew's (value of the exchange: at least $418 million), the two companies plan to merge. Loew's will be the dominant survivor...