Word: standards
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Beginning in this week's issue, TIME will try to help its readers learn the new metric language. All articles in the Science and Medicine sections will include measurements in both the International System (metric) and in standard English equivalents...
Late Sunday night, Federal District Court Judge Willis Ritter ordered a stay of execution, but a federal appeals court lifted the stay early Monday morning. Thirty minutes after the stay was lifted, at 8:07 Mountain Standard Time, Gilmore was executed...
...everything to become more like everything else. Now the distinction is seldom made between nations that are "civilized" and those that are "uncivilized." Today, when we rely on the distinction between the "developed" and the "underdeveloped" or "developing" countries, we see the experience of all peoples converging. The common standard enables us to measure the rate of convergence statistically-by G.N.P., by per capita annual income and by rates of growth. Everyone, we assume, can participate in the newly shared experience. A person need not be learned, or even literate, to share the fruits of technology. While the enjoyment...
...founders, while the winds of obsolescence blow about us and while we enjoy the delights of ever wider sharing? Will we be able to share the exploring spirit, reach for the unknown, enjoy the multiplication of our wants, live in a world whose rhetoric is advertising, whose standard of living has become its morality - yet avoid the delusions of Utopia and live a life within satisfying limits? Can we be exhilarated by the momentum that carries us willy-nilly beyond our imaginings and yet have some sense of control over our own destiny...
...model run. The walkout cost sales of perhaps 200,000 cars-yet Ford's 1976 volume still rose by almost 14%, to 2,256,000 autos. The company's strategy has been to put an almost equal marketing push behind restyled intermediate-size cars and standard-size cars, and they sold almost equally well. The boxy Granada compact was the company's top make, selling 387,423 cars, yet that was only a hair ahead of the standard Ford...