Most forecasts only compare gross domestic products using current exchange rates.
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Instead, firms should recognize the benefits of the innovation model they inhabit, compare themselves to others using a similar approach and borrow selectively from other categories.
In the US Senator John McCain mocked Mr Ahmadinejad's announcement, using Twitter to compare the Iranian president to the nation's space monkey.
And once they are inside a store, they are using their phones to compare prices with online offers, check product reviews, order out-of-stock items directly, and pay for their purchases.
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Using a software program to compare the sequences of the genes that give the instructions for making egg proteins, they show that teleosts with floating eggs share a gene called VtgAa.
Unlike earlier research, which often used video clips or other methods to simulate crimes and witnesses, the Illinois study was the first and only one to compare the two methods in the field using actual cases.
To quickly compare the genes, the Genomics Center is using gene sequencing technology developed by Lynx Therapeutics, a biotech partner of Hoechst in Hayward, Calif.
During 1997, a full 11% of new car buyers in the U.S. reported using the Internet to research, compare price or even order their car.
For example, C3 Energy, a "big data" analytics specialist, provides software and monitoring systems that can show large and small businesses how much energy they are using and on what processes, then compare these with buildings and businesses in the same area.
But using it as a benchmark, generally, to compare technology stock performance probably misses some subtleties.
Aside from making direct purchases, consumers were using their iPhones, iPads, and Android devices to compare prices in order to get the best deals.
Forbes.com hunted down the most expensive preschools in the biggest urban areas across the country using local school guidebooks, Web sites and experts to compare tuitions and programs.
Mr. Schneider says students should compare net college costs after projected aid. (They can approximate net costs using the government's College Navigator tool) The riskiest investment is a high-cost liberal-arts college that lacks a strong brand name and doesn't offer much aid, says Mr. Schneider.
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By using Northern Trust to shadow BNY Mellon, it can achieve a formalized way to compare valuations.
Compare its elaborate trend-crunching with America Online, which hews to an old broadcast ad model, using sophisticated targeting for only 3% of its ads.
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