Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Dining Services' recent attempt to print nutritional information about all items it serves has drawn mixed reviews. Some find the tabulation of fat, carbohydrates, protein and calories a useful yardstick, while others decry these "bites" as nasty barbs that are incompatible with eating enjoyment. We at Dartboard feel that the new program would meet with universal acclamation if it were to imitate another popular campus rating system: namely, the CUE guide...
...best ways to evaluate the performance of a team is to consider its time of possession. If that statistic is used as a yardstick for excellence, then the Harvard women's soccer team was utterly dominant in yesterday's 4-0 victory against Holy Cross at Ohiri Field...
...what about Wescott's yardstick? Despite the upbeat statistics, real disposable income inched ahead barely 2% over the past year. The ample supply of labor and efforts by companies to trim costs have held down wage and salary increases. "The United States is finally entering a period of sustained, moderate growth fueled by low interest rates," notes Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Clinton's chief economic adviser (and Wescott's new boss). "But we would still like to see higher employment, the creation of more permanent jobs and stronger American exports." Tyson is forecasting modest 3% growth in the inflation-adjusted...
Show business loves two kinds of news: the gritty comeback and the sparkling debut. One sentimentalizes the past; the other sentimentalizes the future. Both burnish the legend of individuality in a largely collaborative medium. By this yardstick, Broadway ought to cheer sevenfold the last and best musical of the season, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Its U.S. debut next week will turn the clock back to high noon for four long-absent old hands aged about 60 and herald the dawn of three substantial younger talents...
...President who has already proved Machiavelli's assertion, asks to be judged by the toughest standard imaginable. Throughout the campaign, Clinton routinely promised a first 100 days reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's action-filled three-month push to lift America from the Great Depression. No matter that the F.D.R. yardstick is arbitrary -- and even foolish given the blessed lack of a galvanizing crisis like the one America faced in 1933. "I think it's been a very productive 100 days . . . we've made terrific progress," White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said last Wednesday, eight days...