But for the first time in the race, virtually every indicator national and state polls, judgments of character and issues have been moving towards Mr Bush.

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Tokyo has 1.5 million people over the age of 65 - representing 13% of the population - but ranks well below the national average in almost every indicator of elderly care.

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We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurement error in national income accounts.

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The Super Bowl Stock Market Indicator holds that if a team from the original National Football League wins - as opposed to a team from the younger American Football League - the stock market will go up that year.

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It's an indicator that Iraq's leaders understand the importance of a government of national unity.

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The Jefferson National survey found that roughly half the advisors said that past outperformance was the preferred indicator for estimating future results.

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Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.

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