Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arguing that the U.S. had a duty to useeconomic leverage to compel Israel to end itshuman rights violations, Zogby said, "Human rightsshould be measured by one yardstick." He calledCongress hypocritical for taking strong stands onhuman rights and at the same time financiallyaiding Israel...
Raisa Gorbachev enjoys opportunities that few Soviet women can imagine. She provides less a role model than a yardstick against which Soviet women measure their lives. "We envy her," says Rimma Raude, 37, an economist who emigrated from Kharkov to the U.S. a year ago. Mrs. Gorbachev's life-style serves both to highlight and deepen women's dissatisfaction, even as the rising expectations spawned by glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) have emboldened some women to speak out about their problems...
...loose interpretation by inexperienced Chinese partners. Says Martin Posth, a West German who is deputy managing director of Volkswagen's joint venture in Shanghai: "You need the right partner in the right area, and you need to examine the existing infrastructure. But the human factor is the real yardstick for the success of a joint venture. Machinery can be bought and you can find funding, but you cannot buy qualified management...
...Poor Yardstick...
Although Columbia should not be used as a yardstick for excellence--a good high school could probably give the Lions a game--Harvard's offense does appear to be significantly improved over the 1986 unit...