We even invented a metric to measure it.

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While the individual bank and servicer numbers seem to obfuscate what they supposedly cleared up, a spokesperson for the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight did say they are useful in providing some metric to measure progress.

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The intangible and harder to measure relationship metric.

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The churn metric is a less relevant and reliable measure of business performance, and does not accurately reflect consumer acceptance of our service.

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Capital is only one metric that the regulators should be using to measure the health of our banking system.

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One such measure, nominal GDP, is a vital metric of governments' debt sustainability.

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In addition to influence they also measure outreach which I thought was an interesting and important metric.

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The measure of the retail sales is cited regularly as a metric to provide some insight to consumer spending trends.

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Whereas old-school coaches were focused on an activity metric batting averages, for example Beane chose to measure and prioritize outcome metrics like on-base percentage.

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