Indonesian papermaker Sinar Mas had entered India and was building a modern 100, 000-metric-ton-a-year factory for high-end coated paper.
And archrival Albemarle Corp. just opened a 15, 000-metric-ton-a-year bromine plant in Magnolia, Ark. that it claims gives it the low-cost position in the U.S. Prices don't look to improve anytime soon.
Tracking this metric year-over-year gives you an idea of how new pages are being found via organic search as their link authority increases, and they begin to rank for new keyword combinations.
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The critical watt-per-TB metric will further improve over time as the helium-filled drive platform enables significantly higher drive capacities in future product generations.
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According to a study led by two Stanford University scientists and published earlier this year, advances in high-yield agriculture during the past half-century have prevented massive amounts of greenhouse gases--the equivalent of 590 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide--from entering the atmosphere.
Perhaps too heavily influenced by the realities of conducting two large-scale stability operations, the 2005 and 2010 QDRs downplayed the two-major-contingency metric.
Another survey revealed that 78 percent of managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings below consensus expectations, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value.
All the evidence suggests that, despite more than decade-and-a-half of goods being labelled in both metric and imperial, the British remain defiantly out of step with their counterparts across the channel.
But he pointed out that Intel has been disclosing its carbon footprint--around 4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year--since 1993.
In particular, I had always mistrusted the Value-at-Risk metric and its offshoots that had been crammed down my throat as an undergraduate finance student.
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Never having known the wonders of imperial measures, they would probably prefer the easier-to-learn metric system that is standard in the rest of Europe.
Since the average revenue per search is lower on the mobile platform, mobile search growth will continue to weigh on the average cost-per-click metric that Google reports for its business overall.
Although no Administration has found a viable alternative to the two-major-conflict metric, this does not mean that any of their proposed force postures were adequate to the task, particularly after factoring in the time dimension.
Normal cooling systems don't require the massive amounts of water -- around 7 metric tons (1, 850 gallons) per hour -- now being poured into the reactors.
The "cubic mile of oil"--a metric roughly equivalent to the amount of oil consumed worldwide each year--is frequently used to explain the challenge facing solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power.
Alltel reported a record-high net gain of 230, 000 new subscribers and said its churn rate--an industry metric that measures the percentage of customers that leave the company each month--was a record low 1.77%.
There is a reset that occurs when Villas-Boas is sacked and Roberto Di Matteo takes over as the metric is calculated on a per-manager basis.
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By the metric of inflation-adjusted earnings, stocks got way out of line a few years ago.
StarMine's proprietary metric, Single-stock Estimate Score (SES), measures the accuracy of each analyst's earnings forecasts.
She dismissed me with a polite and condescending smile and went about her merry and metric-happy way.
The only solution is to complete the changeover to metric - and as swiftly and cleanly as possible.
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They demonstrate the value the agency has brought to the client and, in this metric-conscious world, there is little better than that.
All accounts point to the likelihood that the auto manufacturer was not evaluating Facebook advertising by ROI, but rather the antiquated metric of click-thru-rate (CTR).
Oh, and if you want to know how effective I am as a teacher, here is a simple metric- walk into my classroom and sit down for an hour or so.
Data collected now that aren't in use yet include elevation data to calculate roadway grades, which may become a crucial metric for back-seat drivers being built into the next generation of trucks and cars.
Mr. Grahame-Smith now feels he's in a precarious position: sought-after, buoyed by hype but still unproven in the metric that matters most box-office returns.
We chose the amount of long-term deficit reduction to ensure that our debt and deficits were falling as a percentage of our economy -- an important metric for ensuring confidence in whether the United States is still the best place to make long-term investments.
Global gold demand for the second quarter of 2011 fell 17 percent year-over-year to 919.8 metric tons, the World Gold Council reported Thursday.
We consider these non-GAAP financial measures to be a useful metric for management and investors for the same reasons that Google uses non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin.
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