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The worst in the group by that measure is Applied Materials, and its EVA margin of 7.1% is at the 84th percentile among all stocks.
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In the case of Proposition 8, a private group is defending the measure after the state government declined.
How countries treat one particularly vulnerable group is a good measure of how they will act towards the rest of their citizens.
And the Reverend Rod Thomas, vicar of St Matthew's Elburton, Plymouth and leader of the Evangelical group Reform, said the measure was forcing members of the Church "to accept something that we do not believe the Bible teaches".
Collective intelligence is a measure of how smart the group is, as a whole.
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The rankings, performed for CR by the the nonprofit accreditation group NCQA, uses survey research to measure member satisfaction.
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He told immigration activists they wouldn't be completely happy with the measure and warned that the group must overcome difficult disagreements.
"The product has been designed to make it easier to share with one group of your friends while retaining some measure of privacy with respect to your family, coworkers or other groups of friends, " said Peter Eckersley, a senior technologist at privacy-advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, in an email.
Even harder to measure is the effect on the group's culture.
Even before the judgment came down, a conservative group had begun to collect signatures for a measure defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
But Canon Simon Killwick, vicar of Christ Church, Moss Side and leader of the Catholic group in the synod, insisted that the measure before it was "not fit for purpose".
But Peter Brewer, group secretary of Peterborough NFU, has criticised the measure as false economy.
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We were, by almost any measure of space or time, a group others would kill to become--affluent Americans in 2007.
When Bank of America ran a focus group, nearly all participants said that one security measure they weren't willing to put up with was another password.
The group, in turn, gave you a certain measure of protection: so long as you obeyed its commands, kept your place, and tended to its needs, you would get your scrap of food (if there was food to be had).
Environment minister Roseanna Cunningham assured him a monitoring group was being put in place to ensure such a measure.
The group, New Yorkers for Beverage Choice, claiming the measure to be an infringement of personal freedom, has pledged to continue its fight, possibly through legal means.
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Specter, one of only three GOP senators to vote for the measure, has been part of a dwindling group of Republican moderates from the northeastern part of the country.
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Dr. Nakamura brushes aside charges of fraud, and says he has used the QRS machine to correctly measure the severity of radiation exposure in a group of Fukushima Daiichi workers.
This is clearly the sign of a group which is, has taken each other's measure, concluded that the dynamics had shifted, and are not going to hold back in challenging each other in the strongest terms.
Unicef and Action Contre la Faim weigh and measure children under the age of fvie and focus group discussions are being held with Sheikhs (leaders of a tribe in a certain village) from the villages that are affected by the conflict.
The group agreed on a half dozen benchmarks that could be used to measure any new insurance program.
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The group's move to the base is intended as a temporary measure before members are resettled in third countries.
Seven per cent of bowel cancer cases could be spotted in the target age group but is this enough to justify this type of public health measure?
By this measure, it is bigger than Singapore's DBS Group and Korea's Kookmin Bank, and has attracted big stakeholders such as the Temasek fund of Singapore (it has 7.6%) and CLSA and Merrill Lynch funds.
By this measure, it is bigger than Singapore's DBS Group and Korea's Kookmin Bank (nyse: KB - news - people ), and has attracted big stakeholders such as the Temasek fund of Singapore (it has 7.6%) and CLSA and Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) funds.
On that measure, MINI was the most successful brand in the BMW group, outstripping overall BMW sales that were up by 4% compared with July 2011.
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So Dr Wildt's group is, for example, using a test-tube assay to measure hormone patterns in the faeces of endangered clouded leopards, and correlating these to behaviour under stress with a view to improving reproductive efficiency.
Another measure, she says, is a program built around an elite group of neighborhood leaders.
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