And according to people familiar with High Speed Two, its economics are rather flaccid: every pound invested in high-speed rail is predicted to generate only around two pounds' worth of benefit (measured in time savings, the extra journeys that will be facilitated, reduced congestion on roads and so on).
They are an anachronism from a time when all that was measured was "employee time in the office" rather than the more useful results-oriented measures of today.
However, if it happened to do well with little volatility during the time measured, it might dominate portfolio construction.
Inside the company, he said, performance is primarily measured in the time it takes someone to start working with the body of the material.
Our various calculations indicate, from a historical perspective going back 20 to 30 years, that paid-up participating whole life would have provided 200 to 300 basis points better performance measured from the time of purchase until the insureds' life expectancies.
The second thing that we learned is that we were not able to show an impact on time to disease progression in the way that we measured it, which was the time to the next progression event or two lesions in the bone.
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The strategy will see the quality of care provided by the NHS measured for the first time through patients' experience.
These numbers vary depending on the period of time being measured.
The top three games, as measured by total play time over the first six weeks of availability, will become the focus of a series of short documentaries.
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Any interchange between the two, if it were possible, would have happened already in geologic time, measured in tens of millions of years, not in recent history.
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"The last time I measured it 15 months ago, the lighthouse was 20.6m (67.5ft) from the sea and my best guess is that it had 10 years before it fell into the waves, " he said.
If measured this way the neutrinos will not be faster than light, provided Distance and Time can be correctly measured.
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It was the longest tennis match in history measured by games and elapsed time.
So we wanted only firms that had taken at least ten companies public during the time periods we measured.
Millions more are between jobs, their time without insurance measured in months.
Almost anything that can be measured tends to improve over time.
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The second one, risk would be in the high category with risk here measured in the amount of time it would take us to bring that second MTW to conclusion.
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For the first time, scientists measured an average concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide of 400 parts per million in Mauna Loa, Hawaii, where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observatory is located, on Thursday.
Wealth and power throughout time has often been measured in the ownership of the most valuable and desirable adornment.
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The product life cycle of many models can be measured in weeks, at a time when more than 87 million Americans now own smartphones, according to a comScore report issued in November.
It might seem like common sense that inactive people have a greater risk for heart disease than active people, but a new study has measured the risk in terms of time spent in front of a computer, according to the Deccan Herald.
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During the same time frame high-yield bonds slumped 26% and bank loans fell 24%, while 5-year Treasuries gained 16%, according to our research (municipal bonds, another high-quality fixed income asset class, returned 9% over the same time span, as measured by the BarCap 5-year Municipal Bond Index).
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At the same time, consumer inflation as measured by the gauge the Fed most closely monitors remains well below its 2 percent target.
Both films hark back to a more somber, measured pace and muted palette, a time when movies weren't so desperate to rush us off our feet and sought to engage the mind -- not overload the senses.
They measured this impatience by looking at the average time that investments were held.
You may have spoken too quickly this time, but next time you will take a more measured tone.
However, savvy business leaders guide their teams with time sensitive goals that are easily measured so that they can see where the team is going.
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Earnings news matters immediately, the reaction time for a given stock can be measured in fractions of a second.
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