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...admiral doesn't apply his PERT to this outfit," one CIA official said last week, "we'll be drowned in data." The agency receives an average of 2,000 top-secret messages every 24 hours from all over the globe. It has a card-file index of more than 50 million documents. Such sophisticated devices as long-range cameras, sensitive radios and space-surveillance systems relentlessly pour in additional miles of film and tons of other data...
They should have known better. Most people who play Russian roulette have better luck than Koufax. In 1962 he was laid up with a circulatory ailment called Raynaud's Phenomenon. It might have affected any of ten fingers, but it settled in the left index finger, the one that controls the curve. So much for that season. Sandy won 25 games in 1963, figured to do even better last year, when he picked up his 19th in August. If only he hadn't jammed his left elbow sliding into base...
...sole purpose of production. It is merely the means for raising living standards, for extending and improving production. Under the conditions of a planned economy, profit can and must express actual efficiency of methods of production. Many Soviet economists think that profit can be used as an index for assessing and encouraging the work of our enterprises. However, this does not mean that the Soviet state intends to relinquish its centralized planning management, which will suffer no harm from the improvement of assessment and encouragement, but on the contrary will grow stronger. Your article ignores the role of centralized planning...
Each pamphlet will index one particular subject. All books together with their call numbers, will be listed under an elaborate system of topics and subtopics...
...keep count of each tissue. Some of Sir Christopher's findings: > Determining whether a person even has a cold is no easy matter. Some people naturally have runnier noses than others. (Fever or severe sore throat would indicate another respiratory infection-not a common cold.) As good an index as any proved to be the number of tissues used: five to ten a day for someone with a mild cold. The record...