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Although they are now considered essential measures of economic performance, such vital yardsticks as the gross national product and the consumer price index have come into widespread use only in recent decades. During the 1940s economists made rapid strides in their ability to sift through the billions of transactions that make up economic behavior and distill them into key statistics that indicate the state of the economy. Few experts have been more crucial in turning the numerical potpourri into some kind of order than Sir Richard Stone, 71, who last week won the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
Working from TIME'S New York bureau, Correspondent Ken Banta questioned attorneys who have argued before the Supreme Court, as well as academics who sift the court's opinions for portents of its direction. Observes Banta: "Legal "scholars tend to frame the court's decisions in terms of constitutional history and competing principles. Practicing lawyers are more pragmatic. They look at the Burger Court and ask: 'Which kind of case could I win before it? Which Justices would I try to sway...
...wrecks is often only the start. Sophisticated recovery techniques are needed to get at the loot. Various blowers are sometimes used to dislodge sand. The airlift, a sort of giant vacuum cleaner attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World...
...most universities of Harvard's size or larger a well-chosen search committee, usually containing administrators, faculty and perhaps even students, would sift through potential candidates. While the president may chair the committee, as he does at Yale and Brown, at some places the panel has significant power...
Anyone who doubts that a magazine can rouse the passions of its readers need only sift through a sample of TIME'S weekly mail. There was, for instance, the woman from North Carolina who claimed that she broke into tears five times while reading the Nov. 14 issue. Her "flood of anguish" started with an article on funeral services for Marines killed in Lebanon. It continued through the story on the 20th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination ("I cannot relive those days without terrible pain"); the ordeal of Baby Jane Doe, the Long Island infant born with...