One sign of progress can be found in internal scores that measure how well employees interact with customers, by greeting them when they walk into a branch, or addressing them by name.

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When you combine that with an organization that did not tie its expenses to it revenues or even construct any sort of internal metrics to measure the effectiveness of its staff or player wages, you can start to get a picture of how the mighty Rangers arrived at bankruptcy and how 140 years of celebrated footballing history was almost terminated.

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He said CICRA was insisting the islands' postal operators should measure how effective their internal operations are.

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Within your company, have you tried to isolate departmental networks from one another to measure the ramifications on internal business processes?

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This advice may run contrary to what might be characterized as test madness--the tendency of doctors and patients to want to test in all sorts of ways, using dozens of parameters that purport to measure how well your internal bodily engine is running.

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The important measure of success is the internal quantum efficiency, which shows just how good an LED is at making light.

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Based on the Phoenix lander, the craft is tasked with giving us a peek beneath the planet's surface, armed with tools that include a geodetic instrument from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will be used to calculate Mars' rotation axis, a seismic wave sensor and a subsurface heat probe, to measure the planet's internal temperature.

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He said the Obama administration fought for wording to be included in the Sandy aid measure to require enhanced reviews and internal controls on all money made available by HUD and other agencies for superstorm relief and recovery.

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But the bigger problem is that the measure will be a compliance nightmare for the Internal Revenue Service and smaller businesses.

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For good measure, Mr. Kryuchkov accused the West of causing the Soviet Union's internal difficulties and of exploiting them to speed the breakup of its empire.

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So Lack performs his own asset-weighted calculations (similar to the internal rate of return methodology of measuring private equity or real estate fund performance) using BarclayHedge data to measure how the average investor as distinct from the average fund has done.

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