Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same token, the prospective extension of price controls to intrastate gas is a bad mistake; it destroys that gas as a valuable yardstick of what the commodity really is worth in a free market. Since price is the quickest means for conservation, year-by-year increases in gasoline taxes could eventually curtail unnecessary driving and force more use of mass transit. Unfortunately, this is one of the proposals least likely to be in the final program...
...progression from cautious ambiguity to an increasingly more explicit statement of the poet's passions. Such an advancement mirrored Cavafy's developing belief in honest acceptance of one's passions and surroundings, in bowing to the inevitability of circumstance and human limitations. This belief became the sole moral yardstick by which he could judge him self and others. The creation of a myth around his own city--about which he had ambivalent feelings--as well as the acceptance and open avowal through his poetry of passions which were unacceptable to his cultural milieu, were ongoing expositions of the poet...
...yardstick by which minority inferiority is measured is no longer the distinct rule of law, but the far more labile and equivocal "norm of white middle class culture." The barriers erected in front of the progress of minority groups do not change in fact; only in kind. For the minority students, saddled with more descriptions, labels, assumptions and expectations than a miner's packhorse with pickaxes, the white college or graduate school can be an almost impermeable maze of trials, tasks, hurdles and psychological leaps. If the challenges to these students were only academic, as they are to the "norm...
...people realize how far-reaching are the effects of the current emphasis on multiple-choice tests. These tests have become the dominant factor in educational research; they furnish the yardstick--indeed the very definition--of "progress...
Ernest Hemingway's definition of courage-"grace under pressure"-is as good a yardstick as any for Americans to use as Ford and Carter march through this campaign, says Barber. But it will be up to each person to devise his own definition of both grace and pressure. A campaign is but the tip of the mountain, the debates just a small part of that. Yet, says Barber, the character clues will be there for us to see, even in the debates, though those constitute a mere 4/^-hour capsule of more than half a century of living...