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...major victory was in Florida, although his margin there was the narrowest in his three primary triumphs. In analyzing Mondale, the standards may have been a little more clear-cut: the networks and columnists, like the Mondale campaign, almost all emphasized Georgia's outcome as the yardstick of the former Vice President's performance. Said ABC Correspondent Brit Hume: "I wanted to be able to go on the air and report what the Mondale people thought it all meant...
...County, District Attorney Sam Millsap is gearing up to prosecute her again for injecting a second baby with a life-threatening drug. "Someone tried to kill a child, and justice demands that that person be tried," he says. Like many, he refuses to apply only an accountant's yardstick. "There's no way you can make justice cost effective. If we ever get to the point where we base a decision to prosecute on its price tag, then we will not have a criminal justice system." -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York, with other bureaus
...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...
...almost any academic yardstick available--though any such numerical comparison is crude--Harvard fares much better than Yale. A study conducted by the Conference Board of Associated Research Council recently assessed the "reputations" of faculty members in 32 fields. Harvard had 22 departments rank in the top 10, Yale...
...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...