The survey is in an effort to produce an alternative measure of national performance to Gross Domestic Product.
By this alternative measure, consumption fell as a share of GDP until 2008, but started growing strongly thereafter.
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Looking at an alternative measure of local banks' profitability, the authors suggest that their competitors became sharper at serving several markets, rather than exploiting sheer scale.
To derive an alternative measure, Yiping Huang and his colleagues at Barclays Capital, an investment bank, have tried to pick out those retail sales that are likely to reflect consumer purchases.
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Democrats -- noting that a patients' bill of rights has been a hot issue in Congress for five years and that Republicans will be free to offer amendments during the debate -- contend that Republicans are trying to delay debate not because they need more time but because an alternative GOP measure, backed by the White House, does not have enough votes to pass.
Benbrook omits any discussion of these issues or of alternative parameters to measure environmental impact.
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Free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.
The non-GAAP measures, as well as free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, are described below and are reconciled to the corresponding GAAP measures in the accompanying financial tables.
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An alternative, or supplementary, protective measure is to only keep important information -- or a copy of important information -- on a USB flash drive, which you can keep on your person, making it harder for others to steal or damage.
Ministers plan to link public sector pension rises to an alternative, and historically lower, inflation measure.
Although initially rejected by policy-makers and economists alike, this alternative - at least as a temporary measure - is back on the agenda.
In this context it was necessary for France to establish an alternative truth, and it is a measure of de Gaulle's extraordinary political vision that he understood that imperative and acted upon it.
What this measure really does is provide an alternative to the plan proposed by Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican, that would have replaced the current Medicare system into one where the government funded private insurers.
Democrats say the most contentious debates will be over a Republican plan to do away with the alternative minimum tax on corporations and a Republican measure that accelerates the income tax rate cuts enacted last spring.
In a world where you set the rules and the measure of success, it is possible to create an alternative culture.
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Khosla is cochairing a California ballot measure to tax oil production in the state and use the proceeds to develop alternative energy sources.
Bureaucrats, joined by splinter environmentalists in large measure inspired by the global warming issue, are part of a vocal contingent pushing nukes as a major alternative to hydrocarbons.
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