Japanese interest rates are already at zero, so loosening monetary policy is the sole measure at the Bank of Japan's disposal.
Global cement giant Cemex took the opportunity to announce a green measure at the climate change talks going on in Cancun, Mexico: its very own carbon-counting tool.
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But the same senators hoped to pass it as a separate measure at the end of October and to try to persuade the House again next year.
Anyone who supports Obama for reelection (and, despite some very serious disagreements with him, I favor his reelection), should be thrilled beyond measure at what is being said.
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If member states are unhappy with the EC's final response they could choose to challenge the legality of the measure at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
It would be both shortsighted and unwise for the Republican majority in the House to attempt to repeal this measure at the very time the people of America need a sense of security and stability.
Romano Prodi, the prime minister between 2006 and 2008, promised a law to cap the advertising market share of any one broadcaster at 45%, a measure aimed at Mediaset.
For example, GDP is measuring final output at market prices: but if we have rationing and price controls then how can we really measure output at market prices?
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The central bank has also expanded a key stimulus measure aimed at keeping long term interest rates low.
And - on one measure, at least - our economy is now even more important to Germany than France.
By this measure, at least, the squeeze isn't "easing" at all.
The market is already expensive by this measure, at 25 to 42 times last year's earnings (depending on how you count nonrecurring writeoffs).
Voters also will decide the fate of Prop. 227, a measure aimed at teaching students almost exclusively in English after a one-year transition class.
And loan figures also measure debt at the time students enter loan repayment, meaning they don't take into account whether or not students complete college.
Mr. Sims: While economists have celebrated the incremental economic growth in recent years, the actual effect when you measure it at a company activity level, has been quite minimal.
In fingering GDP as a target, monetarists pick a rate at which this Keynesian measure should grow at, and then they call for money growth by the Fed in order to reach the growth rate.
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The Tuesday tariff is yet another measure aimed at protecting local industry following sector-specific tax incentives (like the auto industry) and a more aggressive intervention policy to maintain the foreign exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Brazilian real at weak levels.
The Obama administration has said its deferred action policy -- which allows people younger than 30 who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful students or served in the military, to apply for a two-year deferral from deportation -- is a temporary measure aimed at addressing a problem that requires a permanent solution.
He would visit and measure the customer at home, principally around Chesterfield and Bakewell.
Thus one really cannot use the poverty rate over time as an interesting measure of anything at all.
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To measure customer delight at the organizational level, the best place to start is the work of Fred Reichheld.
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More sophisticated gadgets, known as accelerometers, measure the rate at which a person moves and convert this into calories expended.
The measure of this at any one time is the number of people prepared to join the hard-core violence, even temporarily.
The tests measure two things at each company: the average employee contribution as a percentage of salary, and the average employer match.
If a bedridden person or baby moves, the wireless system detects the movement but cannot measure their breathing at the same time.
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Quantitative easing appeared to have stabilised the growth of this measure, though at a sluggish rate, in the second quarter of 2009.
For each measure we looked at whether the situation improved or got worse, and we ranked the presidents from 1 to 10.
Republicans oppose the measure along with at least one Democrat, Sen.
In an analysis of voter intentions that showed strong support for the measure, researchers at Oklahoma state university say the proposal could add to consumer confusion.
Another measure Glass looks at is "sustainable" free cash flow.
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