In recent months, two tools have been released that allow families to better compare colleges with respect to return on investment.
There are many other yields to compare them to, but for purposes of isolating factors having to do with growth, the most useful is to compare equity yields with bond yields, especially government bonds.
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Naturally, subscribing to this theory puts a decision maker in the crosshairs of the traditional scouting model, one that relies on seeing and physically and mentally testing the player, with results in a scouting report to compare with hundreds of others.
And it marked scenes of celebration to compare with 1990, when Colin Cowperthwaite's brace helped them to a 3-0 win against Leek Town.
How does this result compare with other strategies to lower risk?
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For now, the cost burden of reshoring falls upon the private sector, with executives needing to compare upfront costs with operational efficiency, profitability and customer service yield.
Facebook, which has 350 million users, keeps its revenues secret, and there are no big publicly-traded companies to compare it with, making it impossible for an outsider to monitor the financial heath of the company.
Regardless of initial ranking, employees gain the ability to compare self-reflection with outside perception to connect the dots and continuously rise to new levels of stardom.
Mr Bush's officials prefer to compare their effort with the paltry sums the Europeans contribute to the Russian clean-up.
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DNA, for example, it is useful to compare it with a central database (such as GenBank) of existing sequences to see what it resembles.
But as the children got older, Kendall began to compare their childhood unfavorably with his own, and to feel guilty.
The right analogy might be to compare climate with an airplane that keeps on changing its size, shape and weight and has to interact in turn with a constantly changing medium that exhibits far more turbulence than what we are accustomed to.
Is it fair to compare a coachable, natural athlete with potential to a child whose parents had the means to expose her to a higher level of play at an earlier age?
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Right now, McCain doesn't seem to have much to compare with Obama's 50-State Strategy.
It was small, relatively short, and had no control groups on other drug-regimes to compare with.
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Review the return you filed and your original source documents to compare with the information in the notice.
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But there has never been anything to compare with Aberfan, partly I suppose because I was a relatively young man.
West Clwyd AM Darren Millar questioned the panel about differences in way they're undertaking their consultation to compare with Hywel Dda.
There is no one to compare with him under the high ball and he offers a real attacking threat coming into the line.
Yet, in a way, he pitied those younger people without experience of the camps or the war, to compare with any present hardships.
Pentagon experts are currently looking at a Tajik military airfield, although so far there is nothing to compare with the intense involvement in Uzbekistan.
Yet these numbers are also difficult to compare with each other.
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For example, an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera does a reasonable job of taking pictures but cannot begin to compare with the imaging quality of a professional SLR.
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"We can't compare that with the submarine measurements of the '50s and '60s, but eventually we will have a hard data set to compare with itself, " said Kwok.
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"If he maintains a level like this, he will be one of the guys to compare with Andre (Agassi) and Pete (Sampras) with tournament wins and grand slams, " said Kuerten.
But Brock, dubbed "King of the Mountain" for his unparalleled record at the daunting track in New South Wales, said he viewed is as a genuine endurance win to compare with his others.
For example, if we compare patients with colon cancer to those without across the entire genome we can find some genotypes that occur more frequently in the cancer group than in the non-cancer group.
America may have five times as many biotech firms as Britain, and scores of real products to show for its efforts (only one British firm, Chiroscience, actually has a drug on the market), but Britain has its own powerhouses around Oxford and Cambridge, and in Surrey and central Scotland, to compare with American clusters around Boston and San Francisco.
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