Cost per average seat mile (CASM), a key measure of unit costs, rose 10.5% to 12.26 cents.
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The European Southern Observatory is organising a public effort to measure the astronomical unit the old fashioned way, just for fun.
The much-maligned SUV may serve as a better unit of measure to frame the energy and political dynamic here.
Among them was Sergeant Daley, from whom we learned in the basement rifle range, that a certain unmentionable type of hair is actually a unit of measure.
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Money is a unit of measure that allows the sandwich maker to exchange the fruit of his efforts with the cell phone maker who may not like sandwiches.
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The megahertz number so often cited in the marketing materials of computer companies refers to the computer's central processing unit chip as a partial measure of its ability to process data.
The standard measure for such things is the Scoville Heat Unit, or SHU, named after Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, a chemist who in 1912 developed a method of assessing the heat given off by capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers.
On Day 44 of the trek, both a radar device meant to measure the ice thickness and a satellite communications unit to relay the data are still not working - despite being brought back to the UK for repairs and then delivered to the team last week.
Crane devised a new measure of energy consumption: a three-dimensional unit he called a cubic mile of oil.
One unit is about half a pint of beer or a single measure of spirits.
By contrast, sieverts - another unit commonly used during the last month's reporting - measure the likely medical impact of the radiation to which an individual is exposed.
The ratio of arrests to searches is some measure of this: over the past two years, the Street Crime Unit's records show that its officers searched 45, 000 people and arrested 9, 500.
That's why a better measure of the value of the Rangers is Cablevision's Madison Square Garden unit, which primarily includes Madison Square Garden, the MSG Network and professional sports teams.
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