Word: yardstick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is already chaos in East Germany by any traditional yardstick for measuring diplomacy and politics in Europe," said Marvin Kalb, director of the Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy. "The question is, `Can it be controlled and managed...
...replace the SAT as a national yardstick, Harvard should place more emphasis on Achievement tests. The admissions office might even require four tests instead of three and make the math and English achievements mandatory...
...London restaurant, Peter O'Toole, 56, speared an oyster and reflected nearly three decades back, to the time when a little-known Irish actor was cast as Lawrence of Arabia. "These were events that altered my entire life," he told TIME correspondent Anne Constable. "It became a yardstick by which to measure practically anything -- even simple things like human endurance." Stepping into the 130 degrees F Jordanian sun on the first day of shooting, he recalls, "it was so hot it hurt. But within a month I adjusted. I knew it would be as much an adventure as a film...
Kirshner says another use for supernovae data is as a "yardstick for measuring the geometry of space." As they explode, supernovae are the brightest stars in the universe. By measuring its chemical and physical characteristics from its emitted light spectra, one can check to see if the universe is still expanding and at what rate, he says...
...deal also raises the salary competition among executives to absurd levels. Says John Swearingen, former chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana: "There is a limit to what managers ought to be paid for managing other people's money." Adds a top executive involved in a current takeover: "The yardstick for compensation has just gotten twelve inches longer. The chief executive who's doing a first-class job running a major U.S. corporation for $890,000 a year is going to start thinking he's some kind of a fool...