Its Gini index, a measure of income inequality, dropped from 0.63 to 0.52 from 1989 to 2009.
An important measure of progress is that business leaders are beginning to feel more confident.
However, there was a measure of support for closing some properties in order to safeguard others.
This is a measure of the money that capital markets are throwing at the media business.
The measure of an economy is what happens when they get their decisions wrong.
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The broadest and most accurate measure of living standards is real per capita consumption.
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping rates for bulk goods, has foundered.
The first was a measure of a place's opacity, or how secret it is.
In addition, amygdala volumes did not correlate with any measure of drug use in the addicts.
Chuang's big measure of success--a couple of world-class customers--has not yet happened, but it could.
In the social sectors, Collins says, money is an input, not a measure of greatness.
Its cost-income ratio, a common measure of efficiency in the industry, is a giddy 78%.
Collective intelligence is a measure of how smart the group is, as a whole.
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He said job strain was "a measure of only part of a psychosocially damaging work environment".
Another measure of train performance looks at how many trains arrive less than one minute late.
The CPI measure of inflation has generally risen by 0.7% a year less than RPI.
What's left is a measure of how much capital the store has sitting on its shelves.
The EWJ has failed to capture the full measure of the move higher in Japanese stocks.
In reality, any chemical that can help a patient can also do some measure of hurt.
The rule would define income as adjusted gross income minus a modified measure of charitable contributions.
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In the marketplace of arena rock, that measure of conventionality was a strength, not a limitation.
That is a measure of calculating speed ordinarily translated into a thousand trillion operations per second.
The best, most immediate measure of the true value of the dollar--or any currency--is gold.
If nothing else, Leu says she hopes to provide some small measure of validation.
Murray also suggests adjusting for gross domestic product, a measure of both population and resources.
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But centers of wealth tend to place undue emphasis on wealth as a measure of status.
In other words, changes in sales results may not be a sufficient measure of current performance.
And that will be the mission, the mandate and the measure of the next Conservative government.
Booth: And cap weight, which is what indexes are, is a very poor measure of that.
On the traditional measure of price to earnings it is fairly inexpensive--12 times trailing net.
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