But if success is measured as the return we gain from the risks in which we invest, things are going pretty well.
The level of gas is measured as part of the island's obligation under the Kyoto Protocol, which aims to cut the level of emissions produced around the world.
The vertical axis (Y axis) is the compounded portfolio return and the horizontal axis (X axis) is portfolio risk as measured by the annual standard deviation of return.
Incredibly, this is true even as measured by unit sales.
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The problem is that although plaque might build up in arteries quickly, as in Reversal, it can take a long time for people to develop heart problems, as is measured in Prove-It.
Meanwhile, higher yielding and therefore riskier emerging market debt is trading lower as measured by the iShares JP Morgan USD Emerging Markets Debt (EMB) ETF, a fund holding sovereign debt priced in dollars.
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You have to run harder just to stay in the same place if your country's currency is weak and your wealth is tied up in land whose value is measured in dollars, as in this survey.
Indeed, one reason why Japan's real output has grown more strongly than expected this year is that prices as measured in the national accounts have fallen faster, turning a fall in nominal spending into a significant increase in real terms.
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One thing they all have in common is that their income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, is well below that of the US. In fact, the Scandinavian and German-speaking countries that consistently score well on a variety of business and quality-of-life surveys have some of the lowest inequality scores among developed nations.
This is because the degree of carbonisation of organic material as measured with electron spin resonance is dependent only upon the amount of carbon and not on the time material has been heated for.
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Is that measured by policy makers as income or part-time work?
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Euro zone money supply as measured by TMS is currently showing a year over year rate of increase of 6.3%, not as high as in the U.S., and clearly down from recent double digit highs, but still a healthy rate of monetary inflation.
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Stronger rises in factory output and the construction sector, together with continued falls in unemployment, could mean national income as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is not shrinking as quickly as first estimated.
The real inequity shown by the Romneys' tax situation, after all, is measured by the taxes they pay as a percent of their spending or lifestyle.
Interest on student loans is pegged to inflation, as measured by the RPI, in order to maintain the real value of the debt over its term.
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The majority of its economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) is derived from services from industries such as financial, real estate, and, of course, tourism.
Risk is the volatility of an investment as measured by standard deviation.
But Dr Duif points out that the anomalous force felt by both Pioneer probes (which are travelling in opposite directions from the sun) is about the same size as that measured by some gravimeters during solar eclipses.
Among those underwater, delinquency (measured as a borrower who is 90 days or more past due on a mortgage payment) is most common in the oldest and middle age brackets with 10.6% of underwater borrowers over the age of 85 delinquent on their mortgage payments and similar percentages of borrowers in both the 40 to 44 and 45 to 49 age brackets delinquent on their mortgages.
During a time when budgets are being scrutinized and ROI is carefully measured, corporations will not invest in advocacy and this is what diversity is perceived as being.
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Membership is restricted to the top two percent as measured by performance on standardized intelligence tests.
Emirates Airline, which is owned by the Dubai government, now is the world's largest carrier as measured by international passengers.
The paper tells us that the value added of sewage treatment as measured at market prices is less than the costs imposed by pollution.
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For 46 of these schools, this is the second year of underperformance, as measured by previous tests, so students in these schools technically had the right to be moved to a different school.
On the other hand, the same devalued real, that reduced the size of the economy as measured in dollars, is expected to help the country's industrial sector by making Brazilian exports more competitive.
My exercise routine has a simple goal: It is all about improving strength to weight as measured by two benchmarks: uphill times on the bicycle, and the number of pullups, dips and pushups I can do in a 30-minute workout.
Measured by flows, India is overtaking China as Japan's biggest destination for foreign investment and, according to a survey by the Japan Bank for International Co-operation, will be the most favoured destination for long-term Japanese investments over the next decade.
This is why the growth in dis-saving as measured by the budget deficit necessarily draws in foreign saving to make up the difference.
First, the system is progressive: individuals with low incomes, as measured by their highest 35 years of earnings, get a subsidy in retirement from workers who did better.
The slope of the yield curve can be measured in varying ways but is conventionally thought of as the long-term government bond rate minus the short-term government bond rate.
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