Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WELCOME FIRST to the world of the Total Average. Boswell's ingenious statistic, which he modestly trumps as coming "closer to being the ultimate offensive yardstick than anything before it" and which shines in its utter simplicity. To figure Total Average, you add up all the bases a player has accumulated for his team. Count two bases for a double, three for a triple, four for a homer, and don't forget to add in walks, stolen bases, and hit-by-pitches. "All bases. "Boswell notes imperiously, "are created equal." Then add up all the outs a player has made...
Many young risk takers regard their accumulated wealth as a yardstick of success rather than as an end in itself. K.P. (Phil) Hwang, 45, emigrated from Korea in the early '60s and worked as a busboy and waiter while attending Utah State University. In 1975 he used $9,000 in family savings to found Tele Video Systems, a company that makes computer screens and keyboards. Although Hwang is now a multimillionaire, he says that his wife still fusses over utility bills and turns down the thermostat at home...
...better performances of the vear," Watling said. "The game was a very good yardstick...
...automatic opponent of any Egyptian leader, including Hosni Mubarak, who intends to continue Sadat's peace initiative. Says a British analyst: "There is an irrationality in Gaddafi's makeup that defies explanation, and makes it virtually impossible to correctly assess his policies by any normal yardstick...
Using telescopes on Kitt Peak and Mount Hopkins in Arizona and Mount Palomar in California, they photographed patches of the night sky and got two-dimensional pictures showing the distribution of matter in a sector of space. To add the perspective of depth they used an astronomical yardstick called the red shift, a measure of how far an object has traveled based on how sharply its light is displaced toward the red end of the spectrum...