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Though Spelke attacked his yardstick indicator—the SAT mathematics examinations—Pinker maintained that “the tests are very good. They have an enormous amount of predictive power...
...summer holidays come into full swing, the 35-hour week itself looks like it might get a permanent vacation. Back in 2000, France's Socialist government promised shorter weeks would create jobs. Working fewer hours, it argued, would require more workers to complete a task. Using that noble yardstick, the measure hasn't performed especially well: France's unemployment rate today is 9.8%, compared to 9.6% when the law came into force. Employers and some politicians have been attacking the measure for years, but now the 35-hour week may have met its match. More and more employers in France...
...obvious yardstick of success or failure is stock price. The companies whose stock is bouncing back the fastest are usually those whose new leaders have acted most quickly to tackle their core problems. In Britain, Cable & Wireless stock is up 50% since Italian turnaround expert Francesco Caio took over a year ago. He swiftly shed unprofitable operations his predecessor had bought in the U.S., including a big Internet hosting business, but had been reluctant to sell when they didn't pan out. At ailing insurer Royal & Sun Alliance, Andy Haste, 41, the CEO who took over last year, wasted little...
...conference, sponsored by the history department and five other Harvard-affiliated institutions, was designed to look at “Empire” as a historical phenomenon, and to develop a yardstick by which to measure the “American Empire,” according to Daniel J. Sargent, a history graduate student and one of the event organizers...
While admissions officers do require a way of measuring students’ abilities with a common yardstick, the SAT is not the answer. In lieu of the extensive reliance on the SAT I by admissions committees nationwide, the SAT II exams should be universalized and used instead. Until the SAT I can prove its usefulness as a unique source of information in assessing a student’s application, it should be shelved...