Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional role. Mabel couldn't defend herself because she wasn't sure she had all that much to defend. As she says of her children. "The only thing I ever did in my life that was anything at all was to make you guys." Given the classic female yardstick of achievement she was absolutely right. It's no wonder that her first response to the news of her impending committal was "Tell me what you want me to be, Nick. I can be anything at all." Despite Cassavetes's denial of political intent, he says: "The Mabel character...
This week Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III plans to introduce in the Senate a bill calling for creation of a National Energy Supply Corp. Its purpose: to operate alongside existing energy firms and offer the public a "yardstick" by which to realistically gauge the industry's prices, profits and overall performance. The notion of a federal oil firm is likely to be given an even stronger push by another bill, also scheduled to be put forward in the Senate this week, by the current front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Washington's Henry M. Jackson. His legislation...
STEVENSON'S YARDSTICK: The Government-owned National Energy Supply Corp. would gradually get into the full range of oil and natural gas exploration, development and production. The NESC would be given first crack at development rights for up to 20% of any Government-owned oil or natural gas tract on land or offshore. The corporation would produce some fuel for Government stockpiles and sell the rest to independent oil firms-at prices that would aim to stimulate competition in the industry. The NESC would not market its oil and natural gas at below cost, but it would keep...
Using his new yardstick, he concluded that all galaxies were more distant than astronomers had previously believed. That, in turn, meant the expansion had been going on longer than anyone thought, and that the age of the universe was at least 16 billion years, or roughly 4 billion to 6 billion years older than earlier estimates. Even more important, the redshift measurements of nearby galaxies gave no indication of any significant gravitational slowdown in the outward rush of the galaxies. "It's a terrible surprise," says Sandage, who for years had been leading proponent of the idea that...
When Putnam and members of the Corporation announced their intention to form the Harvard Management Company last fall, they decided that several modest chunks of the portfolio should remain with outside management firms as a sort of "yardstick" for the new company...