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Though still experimental, the reflective-judgment yardstick has attracted the interest of cognitive scholars around the country. One psychologist who edits a journal in the field privately describes Kitchener and King as "on the cutting edge" of as yet uncharted research. Some experts, like Irving Sigel, research scientist for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., consider the interviews a promising new means for assessing "whether a student has the skills to go about understanding and solving new problems." Harvard's Fischer is particularly hopeful about the potential for measuring the broad-gauge effects of a college education. Indeed, Kitchener...
...venerable dogma that the customer is always right. Result: the chain's sales, 73% derived from women's retailing, passed the $1 billion mark for the first time in 1985 and reached an estimated $1.6 billion for 1986. Sales per square foot of space, a basic retail performance yardstick, is about double the average for the industry...
...predictably. Anytime a band comes along that has an act full of fun, a songbook full of tunes with enough hooks to put in a tackle box and a sensual appeal that is insinuating and disarming at once, the Fab Four get trotted out like some handy musical yardstick for measuring progress and promise. No fair. The Bangles are a long way from Ticket to Ride, never mind In My Life. It is still early in the tour--their first as U.S. headliners--but the accomplishment of their guitar playing isn't fully matched by any assurance of stagecraft...
...Close" also counted for both Harvard squads, because that's about where Crimson athletes had hoped to finish. Rather than shooting for team victories in the GBC's, the Harvard men and women planned to use the Championships as a yardstick to gauge how prepared they are for the upcoming Heptagonals...
Modigliani's insights have influenced generations of students and policymakers. His "life-cycle" savings theory, developed in the 1950s with Richard Brumberg, is accepted by nearly all experts as a key to understanding thrift. Among other uses, the work offers a yardstick for gauging the impact of different pension systems. The theory suggests, for example, that people will tuck away less when they are guaranteed retirement income. That prediction has been borne out by the experience of Sweden, where savings rates plummeted from 7% to virtually zero after the government embarked in the 1960s on a sweeping pension program...