Word: markers
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...Mortimer, along with University of Kansas psychologist Susan Kemper, began analyzing the autobiographies for evidence of such extra capacity. Kemper, an expert on the effects of aging on language usage, had earlier shown that "idea density"--the number of discrete ideas per 10 written words--was a good marker of educational level, vocabulary and general knowledge. Grammatical complexity, meanwhile, was an indicator of how well memory was functioning...
...mandatory drug sentences. Some $40 billion a year is already being spent by federal and state governments to prosecute and imprison drug offenders and to try to stem the flow of narcotics across the border. Drug use is down during the past 20 years, which is one important marker of success. But drugs are cheaper, purer and more plentiful than ever. More than three-quarters of Americans tell pollsters that the war on drugs is failing...
...being dsng@post.) It’s weird to think so much has changed in the world of pop music in four years. When I first came to Harvard, “MmmBop” had just been the hit of the summer. Who knew then it was a marker of a seismic pop-cultural shift towards boybands? The Hanson boys did, after all, play their own instruments. But it’s been fun chronicling those changes these past one-and-half years and to get in the occasional dig at Puffy and Britney. My thanks...
...Cincinnati riots, Broder believes, should have moved Bush to say something concerned and statesmanlike. "The incident was local but the problem of police-minority relations is national - and important. Bush had a perfect opportunity to lay down a marker for his administration and the country and to shape the kind of discussion this issue needs in every community...
...southern Sudan. The airlift, conducted over five days, followed a pledge last October by John Garang, leader of the guerrilla Sudan People's Liberation Army, to demobilize all of his young fighters, who ranged in age from eight to 18. unicef director Carol Bellamy called the evacuations "a marker of the growing global recognition that children should never be made instruments of adult conflicts and violence...