Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another recent Times piece, Harvard Charles M. Needle responded to Holahan, saying in part: "Being present at The Game is a yardstick of one's existence." It is to this status-conscious crowd that the vast number of private entrepreneurs aim, some wags note. "It's unbelievable," says Michael Cox. Yale's manager of consessions operations. "I'm sure the day of The Game there are going to be so many pirates and bootleggers." Cox, nevertheless, reports healthy sales for official memorabilia, including the $30 Ticket in Lucite, for which one company recently placed a large order "to give...
...Sandinistas Nicaragua is hardly a paradise on earth. But it is an immeasurable improvement over Somoza. And measured by an accurate yardstick, human rights excesses in Nicaragua are considerably fewer than in El Salvador or Guatemala. If we allow them enough breathing room, the Sandinistas could produce a truly democratic form of government. Instead, by hindering the efforts Managua is making to improve the present system, we are only choking off the erratic first breaths of an ideal our country supposedly advances...
...paying checking accounts, the so-called NOW and super-NOW accounts. The Federal Reserve argues that this development has distorted the M1 numbers and that money is really not growing as fast as statistics suggest. Some economists now consider M1 to be virtually meaningless. "It's a rubber yardstick," says Anthony Frank, president of First Nationwide Savings in California...
Since there is no public market for these stocks until the offering, the entrepreneurs behind the ventures have no accurate yardstick for measuring what they, or their companies, are worth. Finding out is likely to be a pleasant experience for K. Philip Hwang, 46, chairman of Tele Video Systems Inc., and Allen Paulson, 60, chairman of Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. Their companies are among the 145 now in registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for first-time offerings. Preliminary prospectuses show that, at the prices anticipated by the underwriters, Hwang and Paulson will soon be worth about half a billion...
Before his mission in southern Italy and Sicily. Cameron Carson '84 thought that success could be measured in numbers of converts; after several months he realized that personal growth was a more likely yardstick. Finlayson concurs: "Even if I hadn't taught anyone who converted, it would have been a success just in terms of the broadening of my own horizons." Reported conversion rates are impressive in any case: they range from 20 (Carter) to 50 (Beck...