Aside from serving us fantastic ahi tuna, calamari, and an assortment of other goodies, Mr. Garza explained to me that their sales on Super Bowl weekend (just Saturday and Sunday) were up roughly 55% relative to comparative weekends.

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One of the best sites I have found that allows you to do relative or comparative performance analysis is Stockcharts.com. (In the interests of full disclosure, it is partially owned by two old friends John Murphy and Greg Morris).

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The 2013 Thumbtack.com U.S. Small Business Friendliness Survey released this week from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and local-services marketplace site Thumbtack.com provides the first comparative benchmark on the relative business friendliness of the climate in major U.S. cities.

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He said that the growing use of comparative effectiveness research, which provides information on the relative strengths and weaknesses of different medical technologies, could help close the gap between what is known and what is done in pharmaceutical care.

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