Using it as the main measure to make marketing decisions is truly managing by looking in the rear view mirror.
Over the weekend, it also increased the base rate for calculating import taxes on the precious metal, another measure to make imports costlier and bring down demand.
Yet it is unclear whether Mr Medvedev's order marks an offensive against Mr Putin's state capitalism or is a cosmetic measure to make it look more civilised.
Gold has historically served as the measure meant to make the tickets in our pockets most stable in value.
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Gov. Robert Bentley said in a press release that he approved the measure "to make House Bill 56 better, " referring to the law that went into effect last year.
The new Tundra is said to be so big (specs haven't been released yet) that Toyota researchers had to measure hundreds of garages to make sure the biggest version, which will have ample storage behind its second row of seats, will fit.
The new measure requires companies to make a reasonable effort to determine the origin of the specified metals used in their products.
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The Bill's a worthy measure allowing people to make energy-saving improvements to their homes - new boilers, better insulation etc - and pay for it out of the resulting savings to their gas and electricity bills.
Things may then become a tad less consensual as peers get their first chance to debate the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill - the measure which is designed to make sure that benefit payments don't increase faster than wages.
If it gets the money, the John Innes Centre hopes to build new greenhouses and invest in various imaging devices to make it easier to measure plant performance in the field.
But the measure is not expected to make any headway in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Another good measure for regulators is to make licences more flexible.
Implicit in that model unfortunately is the fact that you are going to make what by any objective measure are going to be mistakes.
The two biggest challenges, according to Mr Chabris, are ensuring the games are fun to play and convincing recruiters, who typically make no attempt to measure cognitive skills, to pay attention to these new data.
"We know that enforcement is never going to be perfect, " but this measure should make it "much harder" for teens to get cigarettes, Farley said.
Just for good measure, they are trying to make it irreplaceable by law.
Behind the scenes, there are ongoing discussions on softening the burden for smaller deposits, in an attempt to make the measure more politically palatable and economically enticing.
No compensation, no amount of money, no measure of justice is enough to make it right for a family who's had their piece of the American Dream wrongly taken from them.
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He also urged shareholders to vote against an Apple ballot measure that he worries would make it harder for the company to adopt its plan.
We can wear trackers to count our steps or measure our weight, and we can use tech to make a picture of where we've been.
Einhorn in particular is opposed to a measure to be voted on by Apple holders that would make it tougher for Apple to issue preferred stock.
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The next stage of the research will looking at physical similarities between different groups, in which the team will use photographs of people and make 3D models to measure quantitative similarities between related groups.
"We're recognizing more and more that not all care needs to be delivered face to face, " but only if people measure the right things and have a relationship with a doctor to help make good use of the findings, he stressed.
It says that spending is easier to measure, but the more complex impact of a society's attitude to education can make a big difference.
By that measure Lauren Cohen would easily make it on to our list.
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Most businessmen were at first strongly opposed to the measure, saying that it would put up the cost of labour by 11% to make up for the four hours lost each week, squeeze productivity, prompt lay-offs and spread poverty.
"The product has been designed to make it easier to share with one group of your friends while retaining some measure of privacy with respect to your family, coworkers or other groups of friends, " said Peter Eckersley, a senior technologist at privacy-advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, in an email.
His last measure was to use a knife to threaten Jack and make his position clear.
What the present administration does with those policies is their call to make, and will become a measure of their own record.
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