Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inman's yardstick, just about any scientific field--including research in agriculture, computers, and manufacturing procedures--has the potential for damaging U.S. national security...
...measure the health of the U.S. economy, suggested by the late economist Arthur Okun, is the discomfort index, a sum of the unemployment and inflation rates. In November 1980, that yardstick stood at 20.2% (12.7% inflation and 7.5% unemployment). On Election Day this year, TIME'S economists predict, the discomfort index will be only 12.7% (5.4% inflation and 7.3% unemployment...
...major victory was in Florida, although his margin there was the narrowest in his three primary triumphs. In analyzing Mondale, the standards may have been a little more clear-cut: the networks and columnists, like the Mondale campaign, almost all emphasized Georgia's outcome as the yardstick of the former Vice President's performance. Said ABC Correspondent Brit Hume: "I wanted to be able to go on the air and report what the Mondale people thought it all meant...
...County, District Attorney Sam Millsap is gearing up to prosecute her again for injecting a second baby with a life-threatening drug. "Someone tried to kill a child, and justice demands that that person be tried," he says. Like many, he refuses to apply only an accountant's yardstick. "There's no way you can make justice cost effective. If we ever get to the point where we base a decision to prosecute on its price tag, then we will not have a criminal justice system." -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York, with other bureaus
...almost any academic yardstick available--though any such numerical comparison is crude--Harvard fares much better than Yale. A study conducted by the Conference Board of Associated Research Council recently assessed the "reputations" of faculty members in 32 fields. Harvard had 22 departments rank in the top 10, Yale...