The best measure of a currency's true value is its price in gold, a standard measure of wealth for 4, 000 years.
Assistant Dean Sean Ferguson said that because there's no "prototypical" applicant, the long-used GMAT provides a standard measure of a student's ability.
Because individual hospitals differ in size, they are compared by a standard measure of the number of cases per 1, 000 bed days.
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Its cost-income ratio, a standard measure of efficiency, is a flabby 83%.
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Accounts receivable days is a standard measure of the average number of days a company takes to collect payment on goods or services it sold.
Not only are the emerging economies growing rapidly, they also save a higher percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (a standard measure of economic output for an economy).
In doing so, she proposed the "endorsement" test, which established a judicial standard to measure the limits of church-state interaction.
In spite of renewed calls for regulatory measures, OSHA's Mr. Barab said it will be years before the agency settles on a new combustible-dust standard, a key regulatory measure recommended by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a separate government agency.
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Like an honest man or a virtuous woman, it gives us a standard against which to measure our shortcomings.
My guess is that fiduciary standard, a critical measure for the little guy, will be overshadowed by things like system-wide risk, proprietary trading, derivatives and the creation of a consumer protection agency.
Proof of this can be found in the standard deviation, a measure of how volatile annual returns were.
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Recent news stories and opinion pieces have stated or implied that public pensions should be using a corporate pension accounting standard to measure actuarial funding levels.
While goals are not necessary for activity or even productivity, they provide us with a relative standard against which to measure the effectiveness of our efforts, aiding us in the elusive quest for fulfillment.
The CPI was first created in 1996 to conform to the requirement for a standard, European-wide, measure of inflation for the purposes of European monetary union.
But this must be complemented by organizational improvements such as a change of management, revision of standard practices and even downsizing, a necessary but painful measure for many companies.
Delta, United, American, Southwest and Alaska were all over 7.5% of revenue passenger miles with awards. (A revenue passenger mile, or one passenger flying one mile, is the standard measure of traffic for airlines.) Alaska was best at a hefty 9% of revenue passenger miles on frequent-flier awards.
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One of Grove's frustrations is the standard test neurologists use to measure a patient's level of severity of Parkinson's.
One standard measure compares the income of a household just below the top 10% of earners with one just above the bottom 10%.
Like the House measure, the Senate bill has a standard deduction provision, but it allows businesses to apply their net losses to previous years in which they turned a profit.
It is a greater challenge to measure real price changes in computers, software and telecoms equipment undergoing rapid innovation than in a standard commodity such as oil.
The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 15, 000 for the first time early Friday, and the Standard and Poor's 500 index, a broader market measure, broke through 1, 600 for the first time.
Another measure of rich would be those who have a higher standard of living.
In Dr Attari's study, for example, the survey provided a reference measure by stating the amount of energy used by a standard light bulb.
The island nation uses 4, 500 BTUs per U.S. dollar of gross domestic product, a measure known as "energy intensity, " the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy.
While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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Beijing has about 100 cubic meters of water available per person, well below the U.N. standard of 1, 000 cubic meters per person, a threshold used to measure chronic water shortage.
In addition, the standard model says the particle also should have positive parity, which is a measure of how its mirror image behaves.
Most experts agree that the Superlative CPI provides a more accurate measure of the average change in the cost of living than the standard CPI.
Today, the two-MRC standard, the sine qua non of superpower status and possibly the most critical measure of a viable U.S. national security strategy, is at risk.
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