Closer to home, Education Week, which recently released its "Quality Counts: A Report Card of the Condition of Education in the 50 States, " gave states the highest grades for standards and assessments while all other areas of public education received barely passable marks.

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This is a service business and it is the quality of service that really counts.

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But, of course, when it comes to pursuing the truth, it is not the quantity of information that counts but its quality.

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Most recently, he presented research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame that addresses the need to revise the current definition of a quality start and recommends creating a new statistic that incorporates pitch counts as well as measures the efficiency and effectiveness of a starting pitcher.

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Honestly, Apple just sits back and counts the money, without having to worry overmuch about being editors, censors, or arbiters of quality.

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