Do you define success by comparing yourself to how everyone around you is doing?
The advantages of the Directed Energy is perhaps best illustrated by comparing it to a traditional bullet.
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The device gives an accurate record of the force being used during delivery by comparing it to calibrated force readings for the individual user.
And because people generally judge their fortunes not in absolute terms, but by comparing themselves to others, the super-success of the top 1% can make Mr. and Mrs.
Yet the short sellers tried to mislead the public by comparing our ARPU to that of MMORPG game developers or SOCIAL game platforms.
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Patsalis of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics said his team is developing a noninvasive method to test for Down syndrome by comparing fetal DNA to the mother's using standard lab equipment, instead of pricey gene-sequencing gear.
Perhaps the best way to demonstrate how fecklessly the US is behaving is by comparing its actions to those of Israel, which suffered a similar, if far smaller case of data theft earlier this year.
Jones Day attorney Michael Carvin, representing the the National Federation of Independent Business, tried to appeal to Kennedy by comparing what the law does to individuals with federal laws Kennedy has voted to strike down that took away powers that belong to the states.
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Every business-school student learns to size up a new project by comparing its expected returns to expected stockmarket returns.
By comparing this value to market prices, an investor is able to make a buy, hold, or sell decision.
Market pundits keep trying to inject optimism by comparing the decline in stock prices to other whoppers in 1973 to 1974, 1987 and 2000 to 2002.
By comparing sales data to advertising spending over time, Nissan can plot a demand curve showing the points at which a campaign starts to gain and lose steam.
But Representative Dan Burton of Indiana countered critiques that the bill would crimp U.S. business abroad by comparing those concerns to arguments in 19th century Britain over the fiscal sacrifices associated with ending slavery.
So for the past three years, the law, under No Child Left Behind, the federal government has evaluated public schools based on the progress students make towards this goal by comparing students year to year.
There are online assessments you can take to identify your motivational focus, but you can also get a pretty good sense of it by comparing your own behavior to the following descriptions.
The most objective way I have found to measure this is by comparing the weekly or monthly closing price to the Starc band readings.
It is the last one he wishes to explore, and he does so in a clever way by comparing the history of computers to evolution on Earth.
And so by comparing material-size to people-size, are we measuring primary material consumption on the right scale?
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By painstakingly comparing that information to the personnel files of sailors who died, Emory can eventually get some matches.
By comparing people good enough to be considered for a Nobel, they could measure what the status of having one was worth.
Perhaps we're nitpicking here by comparing the Fender Pro to a real guitar, but our points stand: coming from real instrumentation, there are definitely some adjustments you'll probably need to make, else succumb to missed-note frustration.
Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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By freezing or sharply constraining the growth of government outlays, nations were able to rapidly shrinking the economic burden of government, as measured by comparing the size of the budget to overall economic output.
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The right way to assess Part D is by comparing it with programs where the government is allowed to use its purchasing power.
Judging a team by its ratio of runs scored to runs allowed and seeing how that compares to its real world wins is a bit like judging a stock by its fundamentals and comparing those numbers to its share price.
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But some theorists believe that when it is possible, they will be able to determine how a particular object formed by comparing its spectrum with that of its parent star to determine the relative proportions of heavy elements in the two bodies.
By comparing samples, detectives hope to work out where the supply chain splits and who is involved.
By comparing the vaccines head-to-head, Glaxo hopes to gain a bigger foothold.
This can be seen by comparing the median loan-to-value ratio of underwater borrowers by age, which is lower in the younger age brackets (see Figure 1).
Another similar compound, still known by the codename Cox-189, is being developed by Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people), which is making a bold move by directly comparing Cox-189 to both Celebrex and Vioxx.
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