Word: standardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lights also set a Henley record, establishing a new standard for the Thames Cup in its second-round win, but they were upset by Williams College in the following round...
...pursued its own probe, it discovered that Vitarine Pharmaceuticals of New York City had taken a more drastic step to ensure approval of its generic version of Dyazide, a standard antihypertension drug developed by SmithKline. The generic-drug company substituted Dyazide for its own capsules and sailed right through the efficacy tests. Vitarine admitted the deception earlier this month and has recalled the product...
...fact, has been at the back of the thundering herd of market indexes, partly because it is made up of blue-chip issues favored by relatively conservative investors. Broader market indexes including Standard & Poor's 500 and the Wilshire 5,000 had already reached all-time record levels by early August. Says Justin Mamis, chief strategist for the investment firm Cowen & Co.: "All the Dow can do now is put the lipstick on." The allure of stocks is broadening rapidly as more and more investors join the stampede, which is demonstrated by the big increase in the market's volume...
...decision reinforced the rigorous standard of evidence imposed on public figures who sue for libel, and struck some journalists as reasonable in that context. Editor Eugene Roberts of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, "After every press conference, where often you can't hear very well, you will see three or four variations on the same quote. Just about every time, the intent was preserved." To others, the victory seemed Pyrrhic. Said editor Bill Monroe of the Washington Journalism Review: "I don't see how any journalist can be happy with a judge condoning tampering with specific quotes...
...life to Meserve's military skills. The sergeant, who is not presented as a psychopath, and the other men are in a furor because a buddy has been killed in an ambush at a supposedly pacified village. Eriksson has an interesting speech in which he argues that the standard rationale for bad wartime behavior ("We might at any second be blown away") is exactly wrong. It is precisely because soldiers live inches from death that they should be "extra careful about what we do." The ending, in which Eriksson is awakened from his nightmare and, in effect, offered absolution...