Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are other compelling objections to NASA's announcement. Most modern astronomers are confident that the technical yardstick by which they measure distant galaxies and quasars-the red shift of light from those bodies-is reasonably accurate. And by that measure, the most distant quasar so far observed by astronomers is about 8 billion light-years away. Furthermore, in the complex Einsteinian geometry of space, diameter is a naive measurement; normal concepts of shape are meaningless. Astronomers were also nettled by the way that NASA released its information. Ignoring the scientific community, the space agency has to date published...
...count he seemed a good man to tackle Newark's problems. He brought to his mayoralty the reputation of a promising politician whose liberalism on the race issue could serve as a bridge between the city's blacks and whites. By another yardstick, he was not the man for the job. He had been launched in politics in 1946 by Newark Democratic Boss Dennis Carey, who was in search of a congressional candidate. "I figured," Carey once said, "that I needed a guinea with a name that long." Addonizio, a much-decorated war hero, met Carey...
...with the deceptively gentle name of Camille. Camille visited on the Southeastern U.S. wind, rain, and floods of such unexpected scale that Dr. Robert Simpson, head of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, called it "the greatest storm of any kind that has ever affected this nation, by any yardstick you want to measure with...
...yardstick that is most apparent to Americans-prices-the economic situation is more alarming than ever. The Labor Department reported last week that consumer prices spurted at an annual rate of 7.2% in June, double May's increase. The rise was led by the higher cost of food, particularly meat. But prices should begin to slow down later this year as lagging beef and pork production picks up, and as unsustainably high rises in services and medical costs taper off. Clothing and furniture prices should level out this month. Nevertheless, over the past twelve months, the dollar has shrunk...
...Approved. Many papers go along with the businesslike rationale of the Detroit Free Press. "We're a family newspaper," says Bill O'Flaherty, the national ad manager, "and there's no point in losing our readership by giving them what they don't want." His yardstick...