One of the best barometers of this is spot market pricing for memory chips.

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Japan's traditional barometers of success, such as an expanding market share, do not always apply anymore.

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Sure, healthy revenues and your break-even date are helpful barometers of business activity and customer engagement.

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One of the key barometers of how traditionalists view Francis concerns his take on the pre-Vatican II Latin Massachusetts.

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He and his twin brother, Joaquin, now a freshman member of Congress, are themselves barometers of the shift under way in Texas.

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Risk barometers must be built into day-to-day business plans.

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Speaking last week in Japan, al-Maliki said "achievements and victories" on the ground -- not timetables -- are the proper barometers that will determine the "departure of international forces" from his war-torn country.

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Dr. Glen Newey, a professor of politics at Britain's Keele University, told CNN that politicians telling whoppers often act as barometers of functioning democracy, indicating that a demanding press and public are capable of steering politicians into stormy seas.

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