At the height of our economic crisis, that measure all too often was delivering grim news.
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In an iconic, mobile world, consumers will measure all brands by the easy, effortless way they offer solutions.
Researchers realized in 2002 that they might not need to measure all 10 million SNPs to find culprit genes.
These surveys measure all manner of working conditions from facilities and job tasks to management style and employee empowerment.
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But how to measure all the informal communication that crops up when people are physically in the same place?
In other words we directly and independently measure all of the quantities that affect the way the system behaves.
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Still, the research firm says not all types of ads are easy to measure all the way to purchase.
Here's a visual standard against which to measure all other live-action DVDs.
And yet official statistics utterly fail to measure all this.
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But critics says the tables do not measure all aspects of a school and merely reflect the intake of a given school and so discriminate against schools in challenging areas.
In theory, these tests provide a great preventive measure for all employees and a simple way to nip anything bad in the bud.
They can have some of the above in full measure or all of the above in reduced form, but not all of the above as once promised.
U.S. gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced in the economy, rose at a lower-than-expected 2.5% annual rate between January and March, the Commerce Department reported.
But during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on one of the proposals (the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act), proponents of the measure disregarded all facts showing why their solution is worse than the problem.
The OBR is predicting that gross domestic product (GDP), which is the measure of all the goods and services produced in the economy, will contract in the last three months of 2012, having only emerged from recession in the previous quarter.
Finding a single measure that captures all this, the report concludes, seems too ambitious.
The measure supposedly captures all components of market risk, including changes in inflation, interest rates, currencies and commodities.
This is a fair point, so we need to find some objective measure that neutralizes all the possible differences.
Why is it that innovators die poor--while imitators succeed beyond all measure?
The Toomey-Manchin measure would require all people buying firearms online and at gun shows to undergo a background check through a licensed dealer, who must keep a paper record of the sale.
These future liabilities aren't captured by the official debt measure, which receives all the press attention.
Thus one really cannot use the poverty rate over time as an interesting measure of anything at all.
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California voters, after all, also approved a ballot measure in 1995 that outlawed racial preferences at all levels of government throughout the state.
There are various ways that you can measure web traffic and all of them are going to be guesses that are more or less informed.
This is no way to measure teacher effectiveness at all.
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Even the federal American Time Use Survey, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, doesn't directly measure how much time all adults in a household are spending caring for their children.
The trials are likely to be long and difficult: Because of the murky and variable nature of depression, it is difficult to measure antidepressant effectiveness at all, let alone subtle differences in the timing of effectiveness.
For there are two well known problems with the way that the Census counts household income (and there are many of these sorts of traps in official US statistics: the pit that is the official poverty measure deserves a book all to itself).
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