Word: yardsticks
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...Close" also counted for both Harvard squads, because that's about where Crimson athletes had hoped to finish. Rather than shooting for team victories in the GBC's, the Harvard men and women planned to use the Championships as a yardstick to gauge how prepared they are for the upcoming Heptagonals...
Modigliani's insights have influenced generations of students and policymakers. His "life-cycle" savings theory, developed in the 1950s with Richard Brumberg, is accepted by nearly all experts as a key to understanding thrift. Among other uses, the work offers a yardstick for gauging the impact of different pension systems. The theory suggests, for example, that people will tuck away less when they are guaranteed retirement income. That prediction has been borne out by the experience of Sweden, where savings rates plummeted from 7% to virtually zero after the government embarked in the 1960s on a sweeping pension program...
...challenge the league leader. They have every reason to feel peacocky. After running dead last in ) prime-time audience ratings for nine years, NBC since September '84 has scrambled to within a tenth of a rating point of the dominant network, CBS, in that arcane but widely accepted Nielsen yardstick of "television homes." For those who count heads rather than houses, NBC leads in the number of viewers: 24.9 million to CBS's 23.2 million and ABC's 22.3 million, according to Nielsen. NBC also delivers more of Madison Avenue's prized target audience, the 18-49 age group; here...
Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos; Six Bagatelles, Op. 126; Andante Favori; "Fur Elise." Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; London, 4 CDs. Despite its familiarity, the cycle of Beethoven concertos remains a severe test of mettle for pianists, as well as a handy yardstick for audiences with which to measure them. From the idiosyncratic classicism of the Second, which was the first in order of composition, to the incipient romanticism of the Emperor, the last, is a span of some 20 years but the musical journey of a lifetime...
Those statistics may be cause for alarm among governing technocrats, but most Soviet citizens measure the reality of their country's inefficiency and mismanagement by a different yardstick, the daily diet of small and not-so- small bureaucratic horror stories. Some examples...