When OMGPOP burst into the casual gaming space, they set a benchmark for how online game portals should work.
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Those sales will be the next to set a benchmark for the kinds of discounts buyers can expect, analysts say.
But "DoubleClick has set a benchmark, " says Gurbaksh Chahal, co-founder and CEO of the privately-owned Blue Lithium, which helps advertisers manage their online campaigns.
But "DoubleClick has set a benchmark, " says Gurbaksh Chahal, co-founder and CEO of the privately owned Blue Lithium, which helps advertisers manage their online campaigns.
Tina Donnelly, director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Wales, said the report set a benchmark for future reports and called for year-on-year improvement.
The Ferrari driver set a benchmark of one minute 12.368 seconds but Hamilton could not match it and finished almost half a second behind in fourth.
Heller has set a new benchmark for Rand scholars, but those looking for a quick read about someone who penned college-course required reading should look elsewhere.
Bill and Maya have set a good benchmark against which we can judge those plans to come.
Razer, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, set a technological benchmark today with the release of its new Razer DeathStalker Ultimate gaming keyboard, featuring Razer's award-winning Switchblade User Interface (UI).
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LinkedIn will be the first social networking company to go public except for China-based Renren, which went out earlier this month, so it will set a public benchmark for the entire category.
But Bankia's assumptions on the rate of non-performing loans in areas such as residential mortgages and corporate loans set a disturbing new benchmark for other lenders.
Ideally each jurisdiction will incorporate a set of broad global principles, which establish a benchmark of prudent finance.
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Recently, for a consulting client, I did a rough comparison between their customer base (which tended to be young, information-intensive companies) and a benchmark comparison set from the mainstream economy.
However this is a market where Apple has set the benchmark.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has set a 2% inflation comfort zone and raised benchmark interest rates to 3.25% this month to tackle rising consumer prices.
With economies facing a deep recession, inflation is set to drop sharply (though the benchmark for the test is falling too).
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All this means that America can sensibly aim for a balance between spending cuts and higher taxes similar to the benchmark set by Britain's coalition government.
Hence, Benchmark, a new index and ETF investment company that was set up in India by some former employees of Merrill Lynch, is excited about selling India's first ETF through the stock exchange.
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Bakken crude even trades at a discount to West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark oil for the US set by prices in Cushing, Oklahoma.
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In 2010 the big miners abandoned the benchmark and began to sell their ore on short-term contracts, at prices set on a nascent spot market.
It exceeded a target set in 2010 of boosting assets from continuing operations by 5% a year, but fell well short of another benchmark that would have required a return on those assets of 1.25% to 1.5%.
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