Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present, attempts to administer and evaluate the relatively new form of treatment are hampered by medicine's lack of knowledge about the full nature and range of immune response. "What we need," says Good, "is a workable system by which we can determine what is normal immunologically, a yardstick by which we can measure and evaluate immune response." To arrive at that system, Good plans to run tests on every patient, employee and staff physician at S.K.I, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recording the various blood components, allergic reactions and response to common disease agents...
Driesell likes to inspire his charges by festooning the locker room with little homilies: THERE IS ONLY ONE YARDSTICK IN OUR SPORT AND THAT IS WINNING-SECOND PLACE IS LIKE KISSING YOUR SISTER. While a few players do not wholly buy his pitch, most agree with Center Len Elmore: "Lefty's the flim-flam man. It's a confidence game with him, but you buy it because he's honest about it." Now 41, Driesell is too busy chasing the national championship and overseeing sundry enterprises-the Lefty Driesell Insurance Agency, the Lefty Driesell steakhouse, the Lefty...
...yardstick except the polls, the Administration should be in trouble over its handling of the war. In the four years since Nixon's inauguration, the war has been escalated in Laos and Cambodia and carried back to North Viet Nam, where the U.S. resumed full-scale bombing last May. The violence has increased steadily. More than a third of the 56,000 Americans who have died in Viet Nam since 1961 have been killed during the Nixon Administration. All told, 897,111 Communist troops and 183,000 South Vietnamese soldiers have died in the war-36,000 of them...
...vast improvement over the almost rudderless version that the Festival mounted six summers ago, in which only Douglas Watson's Brutus, among the major roles, achieved stature. On the other hand, it is far from matching the extraordinary 1953 film version directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, which remains a good yardstick for the play. (The work has attracted filmmakers a dozen or so times from 1907 to as recently as two years...
...What is most important," says Hodgson, "is that we now have a new and useful yardstick to help us improve our performance." Altogether, some 600 standards were devised to gauge efficiency in such Government operations as the minting of coins, distribution of Social Security checks, processing of FHA mortgage applications and printing of federal documents. They cover slightly more than half of the 2.6 million employees in the federal work force. The rest, including NASA scientists, FBI agents and the Supreme Court Justices, perform jobs whose productivity is still unmeasurable...