By those standards, his words have been generally more measured since.

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Earnings, on an adjusted basis, rose to 83 cents per share, from 74 cents per share, but sunk to 9 cents per share, from 67 cents per share, when measured by Generally Accepted Accounting Principals, or GAAP.

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No, as generally recognized, climate changes are measured in multi-decadal timescales.

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The most popular sector, measured by the net inflow of money, had generally performed well in the previous year, beating the average sector by more than two percentage points.

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As you can see in the graph below, when combining such assets, returns generally shift to the lower right: higher return and lower risk (as measured by standard deviation).

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Moreover, other data reviewed by Audit Analytics suggests that the severity of 2012 restatements, as measured by both the impact on net income and by the average number of issues per restatement, was generally less than in the period prior to 2008.

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