At the Center for Financial Stability, we specifically measure the banking system and broader money supplyexisting in the private sector.
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The typical Belgian worker's pension income is 46% of income just before retirement the so-called "replacement ratio, " an important measure of pension system finances.
The high court identified five factors -- facilities, staff, faculty, extracurricular activities and transportation -- to be used to measure a school system's compliance with the mandate of Brown.
Half the states in the U.S. use a "points" system to measure drivers' moving violation history.
However, the Payments Council said a passcode or similar security measure would ensure the system could not be abused.
Our college football valuations use a weighted scoring system to measure the value created by each team for four key areas.
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The great measure of a capitalist system (or a market one, if you prefer that name) is not who gets all the gelt.
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And if lessons learned from addressing equally complex challenges in other sectors are any guide, investing in a reliable system to measure and support effective teaching will pay rich dividends.
Realeyes is also working with Kaplan, an educational-services company, on a project in Hungary which is using the system to measure how children respond to virtual games that teach them English.
The tool helps teach nonliterate children and adults how to read by creating an individual reading tutor for every child, coupled with an accountability system to measure learning, and assistance for teachers to incorporate more effective literacy into the classroom.
By any measure France's health system delivers better value for money than America's costlier one.
The system does not measure lying itself, he adds, but the emotion associated with lying.
Our education system is built to measure and reward the wrong end of the student.
Capital is only one metric that the regulators should be using to measure the health of our banking system.
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Instead of using a microphone to pick up sound, his system uses gyroscopes to measure movement in three dimensions.
You need a reliable system of metrics to measure your performance here.
He was faced with the difficult task of striking the proper balance between standing up for taxpayers and returning a measure of stability to our financial system.
This would help to measure the quality of the patent system itself, and offer some way of evaluating whether it is working to promote innovation, or to impede it.
Congress has since overwhelmingly approved a measure to get the air travel system up to speed again after the delays provoked a round of the blame game on Capitol Hill, with conservatives accusing the president of "playing politics" with these particular cuts.
The train frequently finished at the bottom of passenger satisfaction surveys by the nonprofit Straphangers Campaign, and is among the worst performers in the entire subway system on a chief measure of reliability: how many miles the cars can travel, on average, between breakdowns.
If you add those bank reserves to cash outside the banking system, you get a measure usually called the monetary base.
So the oil-services companies devised techniques (such as the Q-Fin system from WesternGeco and the Nautilus system from CGGVeritas) to measure and adjust the position of the streamers as they travel through the water.
If, however, it was an emergency measure to rescue a desperately sick financial system, putting an end to the policy might depend on other judgments, such as whether the banks are truly on the mend.
Elsewhere, the Joint Committee on the Draft Care and Support Bill (at 9.45am), the measure to sort out the social care system, hears from the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and his junior ministers Norman Lamb and Dr Daniel Poulter.
But putting a measure of stability back into our financial system -- building on what Mark said, if we want to go back to the type of bailouts that Congress approved in October of 2008, then let's keep the rules of the road the same.
On Thursday, a coalition of 14 business organizations including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Financial Services Roundtable, Consumer Electronics Association and the Organization for International Investment sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to oppose the measure, saying it violates the current system of U.S. tax treaties.
And no matter how well you might measure things, you have to lead the system itself.
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If you really, truly want to measure outcomes, you should not create a system that incentives teaching to a test.
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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Neither country is accustomed to, let alone comfortable with, an international system whose functionality rides in large measure on cooperation between two countries.
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