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Thanks, Joe. I'd like to thank my statistician, Victor Bondi, who spotted all the games this week, as well as the Commissioner for being with us today...
DIED. W. Randolph Burgess, 89, former Treasury Department Under Secretary and U.S. Ambassador to NATO during the Eisenhower Administration; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Schooled as a statistician, Burgess worked as a banker in New York for more than 30 years, first at the Federal Reserve, then at National City (now Citibank), before joining the Treasury in 1953. As Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, he favored tight money policies, a balanced national budget and the gold standard. He resigned in 1957 when appointed NATO Ambassador, serving until...
...increase was exaggerated by ice and snow that snarled rails and roads in January, leading to shortages that jacked up food prices. But wholesale prices have been rising rapidly enough in the past few months to threaten more jarring consumer-price jumps. Julius Shiskin, the savvy Labor Department statistician who updated the CPI, concedes that the January jump is "cause for concern...
Many employees openly admit to doing nothing to earn their pay. For a year and a half, a statistician at HUD earning $13,000 a year, and four equally idle coworkers, drank coffee, pondered crossword puzzles and listened to the radio. "Our supervisors were always telling us to look busy," she says. "But there's only so much you can pretend when you haven't got a damn thing...
...account for all this added heft? Laments Statistician Sidney Abraham, the main author of the center's report: "Adults are obviously not getting appreciably taller, and they usually do not get more muscular. All we can say is that the weight increase we found is due to fat." One cause might be junk food and quick lunches, eaten hastily. Independent physicians who treat many overweight patients are inclined to put at least as much if not more blame on prolonged TV watching, especially for men who spend many weekend hours entranced by football, enhanced with a six-pack of beer...