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...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...
...evaluating any research -"the only impeccable yardstick," as Masters and Johnson themselves put it -is the ability of other researchers to duplicate the results using the same techniques. But, say Zilbergeld and Evans, it is impossible to tell from Masters and Johnson's own account precisely what they did and how they did it. Among many unanswered questions, according to the two psychologists: How did Masters and Johnson define success and failure in sex therapy? Who decided if treatment had succeeded? By what criteria...
Security has been so easy for the last generation. A peace marcher now working in Carter's White House says, "I hate to even talk about it. The old 1960s measuring rods are useless. Concerns are so different. I have no moral yardstick. We must consider what we can do that will work, that will prevent...