Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this week's Business graph tracing OPEC's contribution to inflation became the band of an Arab headdress. "I have to be careful to choose the right symbols," he says...
...talking about war again. President Carter talks about it almost every hour. A few mornings ago, at the Cabinet table, he reddened at the deep uneasiness expressed by members of the Committee on the Present Danger, who pressed their demands for greater military preparedness. Later, he listened to other critics from the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. He heard citations of history, reminders of his misconception of Soviet intentions, recitations of our military inadequacies. "We're committed," he said about the assertion of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf. "If we have to, we will do it alone...
...over the Persian Gulf, which supplies 60% of the West's oil. A Soviet attack on Pakistan would be something else; it would, and should, be costly, from Moscow's point of view, but would not necessarily lead to American or British intervention. Thus Washington's present intention is to help Zia ward off Soviet border forays rather than arm Pakistan against a Soviet invasion-an eventuality that Western strategists do not think likely...
...date, the market's big spenders have been cash-rich institutions such as pension funds and the trust departments of banks. More and more their managers are coming to regard stocks as good long-term bets. For one thing, at their present depressed values, at least some blue-chip companies are paying dividends of anywhere from 7% to 10%, making them increasingly competitive with top-quality bonds; utility stocks are offering yields of up to 12%, neck and neck with the money-market funds themselves...
...believes, correctly, that the crisis of this XXII Olympiad may offer the opening to do so. The politics and commercialism of the spectacle should be radically reduced. Most athletes in competition neither want nor need the political extravaganzas and financial hype. To help rescue the Olympics from their present distress, in which this nation is unavoidably an accomplice, the U.S. might...