The "Oneplace" website divides England into 152 areas and uses a coloured flags system to rate performance.
Both Essex trusts have coveted foundation status, supposedly a marker of first-rate performance, which gives them greater freedom over how to manage finances.
Most recently, US Education Secretary Margaret Spellings unveiled a new way to rate the performance of schools.
This cheapness is owed to what I call the flip side of Moore's Law, the side that predicts dropping costs at a constant rate of performance.
Once done, your opponents rate your performance.
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The Huskies earlier had been ordered to sit out the 2013 NCAA tournament, because of its past players' sub-par academic performance rate.
Addressing a large group of mainly private shareholders at the meeting, Mr Cook -- sitting on a high stool, and dressed in a black shirt and jeans -- defended Apple's growth rate and recent performance.
The NCAA notes that a 930 APR, or academic performance rate, equates to a program being at the fulcrum to meet that criteria -- with higher scores indicating that a program is on track to graduate more than half its players, and lower ones indicating it is not.
Five key retirement risks include: longevity, market performance, withdrawal rate, inflation and health care.
But private pension plans (overseen by the Financial Accounting Standards Board) may not set a liability discount rate based on anticipated asset performance.
Currently, the salary structure of the teaching profession is highly rigid, and that would also have to change in a world where we want to rate teachers on their actual performance.
In addition to on-time performance, the joint project looks at three other categories: rate of consumer complaints, mishandled bags and denied boarding performance.
At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate.
The region's economy is growing at 3%, not a spectacular rate but higher than the dismal performance of the 1980s.
In 1996 researchers at the University of Texas announced a new battery design offering high performance and a fast rate of charge.
Local hedge funds report their performance relative to that rate.
Beginning in the 2013 season, all 19 MLS clubs will use the data-tracking technology from adidas, providing coaches, trainers and players with real-time performance metrics including heart rate, speed, acceleration, distance, field position and, for the first time, power.
They find that boosting the top tax rate to 50 percent will slow economic performance.
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However, there is still one glaring problem that is plaguing IT performance at an extremely high rate: human error.
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The update itself looks to be fairly large, improving some of the major issues we've had with the e-reader -- like page refresh rate and a lot of other little performance issues.
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The widely available equations for calculating heart rate training zones may not be specific enough to help you significantly improve performance, but they do provide a starting point, and when combined with a heart rate monitor, they can help you more accurately assess and monitor the intensity of your training sessions.
The rate is determined by financial regulations and inflation performance, which are opaque compared with more visible and often highly politicized fiscal measures.
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Berry likes the similar Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Fund, yielding 1.9% after expenses of 1.8%, for its "steady performance and proven management" and the no-load Fidelity Floating Rate High Income Fund, which is returning 2.9% after expenses of 0.9%.
Mr King concludes that the biggest problem for China's current exchange-rate policy is not the yuan itself but the performance of the dollar.
Although financial performance increased dramatically in 2010, there is little evidence that the social and environmental performance of organizations improved at the same rate or at all.
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The federal government is keen to capitalise on what it calls the "feel-good factor", arising from a robust growth rate of more than 8% and a strong performance over the past six months.
Fido can pick up the smell of TNTvapor at concentrations of just a few parts per trillion, and it was the first sensor to find buried mines at a level comparable to dog performance, with a false-alarm rate of less than 5%.
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