Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Biscayne Bay side of Miami Beach's island, the Pérez Jiménez retreat comes equipped with the standard swimming pool and cabanas; a lush lawn dotted with royal palms, hibiscus and ixora slopes down to the bay. New Orleans-style grillwork flanks the entrance. Low and relatively compact, the two-story white stucco house is built around a patio. Downstairs is a foyer lit with a mammoth bronze lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled...
...Laurent-came out last week with a thoughtful, well-documented prediction on what Canada may be in 1980. The commission's general conclusion: a largely urban, industrialized land of 27 million (v. 17 million today), a gross national product of $80 billion (v. $30 billion), a living standard higher by two-thirds...
...elite was on its ear. To hear him in the finals, standees jammed the aisles in the Moscow Conservatory's deep balconies. Soldiers held back enthusiastic crowds in the street outside. To the hundreds of callers who asked for tickets, the Conservatory's box office had a standard reply: "Cliburn is playing tonight; call back tomorrow...
...CHEVIES may have nylon tires as standard equipment. In secret test, G.M. has put nylon tires on 40,000 new Chevies this year, later will check owners to see how they perform. If they outwear the present rayon tires, Chevy plans switch to nylon, which would be heavy blow to rayon makers, who sell 36% of total output to tire industry...
Despite all improvements, even today's sampling methods are far from 100% accurate. The Census Bureau itself admits that the figures contain a standard error of plus or minus 120,000 at the current level. Thus no one knows within six figures precisely what the total number of unemployed workers in the U.S. really is. Therefore, such figures as a 25,000 increase or decrease in unemployment are meaningless. And so are the tortured, hairline analyses made from them...