Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survey tested students in six subjects and then correlated their scores with 500 variable representing factors of home and school influencing achievement. The researchers then used a method known as regression analysis to trace variations in performance as a function of variations in home and school environment...
...gone wrong with this musical. The score sticks in your ear like wax. The lyrics consist of ditties that a fifth-grader would not dare to pass in to his English teacher. The star (Kay Ballard) spins through her numbers like a treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles a martini shaker, apparently hoping that agitation will pass...
Such popular misconceptions are strengthened by the mass media's failure to place contemporary events in a larger historical context. While the forms of American expansionism have changed over the past 200 years, and several major shifts in the ideology surrounding U.S. imperialism have occurred, it is possible to trace this history of change systematically...
Smugglers are wary of sharp-eyed immigration agents and highway patrolmen, and must frequently take back roads and lengthy detours. Sophisticated smugglers, some of whom make $75,000 a year, employ two-way radios, lookout cars, and rented vehicles that are hard to trace. A few unscrupulous operators have even been known to recruit willing mojados, load them into a waiting vehicle at $250 a head, and then renege on the contract by dumping them 15 miles north of the Mexican border for a tidy profit with no risk involved, since their victims can hardly complain to the police...
Telegenic Tennessee Senator Howard H. Baker has been making time with the public as he puts in a continuous appearance on the Senate Watergate committee. Now it turns out that he has also been making notes-for a novel. Although it is not intended to be autobiographical, it will trace the rise of a country lawyer to the Senate. Praising Author Baker's savor of his fellow Tennesseans, his publisher, Doubleday & Co., is encouraging him to include a relationship that links the freshman politico with a venerable Senator who sounds remarkably like Baker's own colleague, Senator...