Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conant too emphasizes the impracticability of using Howe's experiences as a yardstick for all cancer patients. The nature of the disease, he notes, makes it impossible to diagnose the same treatment for all cancer patients...
...reports Management Centre Europe, a Brussels-based consulting firm. Every six months, M.C.E. measures living costs in 16 European cities in comparison with New York, using as a yardstick the dollar value of a basket of 101 common items, among them food, clothing and bus and taxi rides. In its latest survey, M.C.E. found that all of its European cities were more expensive than the Big Apple, by total amounts that ranged from 16% for Lisbon to 67% for Stockholm, the costliest city. The Swedish capital has wrested that dubious distinction from Geneva, which...
...under Carter. He proposes a "family suffering index," which adds to unemployment the annual rate of increase in the costs of mortgages, gasoline and food. The F.S.I, stands at 77%, more than triple the level that prevailed when Carter took office. Arresting as it is, however, Reagan's yardstick has no more genuine economic validity than redefining the consumer price index so as to include only those items that go up the steepest...
...article like Toobin's is especially damaging to what everybody must realize is a last hope for this election. And an article like Toobin's, because it questions the national vision of the campaign, because it attempts to measure this unique campaign with the yardstick of previous campaigns, is most damaging because it represents the kind of thinking that will surely elect Ronald Reagan come November. David S. Solomon '81 Massachusetts Student Coordinator Anderson Campaign
...digits. The hunger for stocks has lifted not only the Dow's lately depressed industrials but also the broad stock averages. Since the end of March, the composite index of the 1,531 common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange has risen by 28%, while the yardstick for the 880 firms traded on the American Stock Exchange has climbed...