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Your article about my confirmation hearings, "Requiem for a 'Do-Gooder' " [June 15], touches briefly on the real issue, which was ideological. You then drop the subject and pick up the gossip. The point in question was President Carter's use of a rubber yardstick, which emphasized the human rights abuses by our friends more than the abuses by our adversaries...
...idea behind the set-up was not to encourage the separate management units to compete to make the most money, but rather to provide HMC with close ties to the financial world, allowing it to gain advice from the outside firms as well as use them as a yardstick to measure how well it was doing...
...patience was amply rewarded. The wave lengths of celestial light had been drastically stretched, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum-an effect comparable to a familiar terrestrial one: the lowering of a horn's pitch as a car speeds away from an observer. From that yardstick, the astronomers calculated that the galaxies were receding from earth at more than half the speed of light, or better than 93,000 miles per sec. Since objects with higher velocities are presumed to be more distant in a universe that seems to be expanding at a uniform rate, scientists...
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...