It is the true bottom-line measure of how much economic profit, or EVA, a company produces per dollar of sales.
And certainly on the measure that -- the bottom line measure, which is one that would allow for the debt ceiling to be raised, the one created by Senator McConnell to raise the debt ceiling, at the very least, some variation of that needs to be in place so that the United States does not default on its obligations.
The poverty line is a measure of income for example and so really cannot be used as a description of wealth or not wealth.
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The orange line shows a broader measure that captures all the spending in government budgets all of G plus much more.
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For this tournament, two additional officials have been stationed on the goal line, the first time this measure has been used in a major international competition.
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By law, the across-the-board cuts are supposed to be taken in equal measure from front-line programs like air traffic control, meat inspection and the Border Patrol and lower-priority items such as agriculture research and subsidies for airline travel to rural airports.
"In many ways, you can measure America's bottom line by looking at Caterpillar's bottom line, " Obama said.
Bottom line: Money should be a fixed measure of value, just as an hour has 60 minutes, a foot has 12 inches and a pound has 16 ounces.
The goals are more complex: there is no simple bottom line, there are no prices to measure customers' preferences, and indeed there is often no customer apart from the politicians.
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This one, for example, from the OECD, shows how a composite of leading indicators - the red line - often move about six months before another measure of real economic activity.
One immediate measure would be standardization and placing on-line of medical records.
So if you tend toward being risk averse, I encourage you to rethink the nature of risk, and how not taking risks may be keeping you from more of the success you want, whether you measure it in recognition, remuneration or bottom line results.
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Zeinab al-Ghnaimi, head of Gaza's only legal aid center for women, said the legislation is just the latest measure in Hamas' campaign of imposing its hard-line Islamic practices on Gaza's 1.7 million people.
The bottom line, according to Lee, is that mammography is a public health measure that works.
Although some of the nuclear plants will be put back on line, it seems that the hope that nuclear energy would offer a measure of energy independence in the long term seems forlorn.
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Getting Democrats to fall in line is crucial because GOP lawmakers are expected to vote in lockstep against the measure, which they say is too costly, too restrictive and unpopular with the public.
On one measure alone, the prime minister pointed out that more than one billion line workers, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs are joining the international economy to develop, serve and produce goods for markets around the world.
The Judiciary Committee decision by a party-line vote of 10-8 cleared the way for the Democratic-crafted background check measure to be debated and put to a vote in the full Senate.
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The NYSE Composite is a broader measure of the stock market and is still 1% above the March lows (line d).
Ofsted says the inspections measure "how effectively children are helped and protected, the quality of front-line practice, and the effectiveness of leadership and governance".
So by any rational measure, the media are acting against their own interests by pushing the pro-Hamas line.
Still, by any measure, Williams's 57 was an impressive output (21 for 21 from the line, which will warm the heart of every high school coach alive), and focused some deserved attention on one of the game's most talented but unheralded performers.
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