Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...himself a starting position on coach Henry Lamar's Freshman football squad. The program statistics read: end--19--6:1--Choate. "The most adept pass catcher was John Kennedy, but his lack of weight was a drawback," wrote the coach in his post-season review...
Today 40? of every consumer dollar is spent on services-and statisticians include doctors and dentists as well as doormen in this category. Yet service figures are not given their full weight in the standard measurements of the growth or future of business. One reason is that it is hard to assess an increase in productivity in services. Another is that the real value of a good doctor or a good teacher is hard to translate into dollars and cents. Better measurements are needed, so that the emphasis on production statistics will not bulk so large as to overshadow...
...work force shrinks. In return, Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union gave the employers a free hand to eliminate featherbedding and increase efficiency on the docks. The employers will now be able to determine for themselves how many longshore gangs are needed, the weight of slingloads of cargo, and the number of times cargo will be handled in loading and unloading. Explained Pacific Maritime President J. Paul St. Sure: "We are gambling $5,000,000 a year against the right this contract gives us to remove work restrictions in the belief we can save...
...neutrals have made their weight felt, no longer consider themselves mere spear carriers but movers and shakers...
...restricted for vast horror as a scene. A Diary of Anne Frank, by remaining the chronicle of a girl and confining its tragedy to a garret, could expand a family's fate into that of an entire race. But in stage version of The Wall, the mass and weight of John Hersey's novel are lost, while a steady dramatic undertow is lacking...