Most recently, US Education Secretary Margaret Spellings unveiled a new way to rate the performance of schools.
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 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.
The region's economy is growing at 3%, not a spectacular rate but higher than the dismal performance of the 1980s.
ECB's responsibility to contribute to the macroeconomic performance of the euro area economy, which suffers from an unemployment rate of almost 9%.
The official said these also showed the performance by girls was almost a tenth higher than boys, although the rate of increase for boys was quicker.
In addition to on-time performance, the joint project looks at three other categories: rate of consumer complaints, mishandled bags and denied boarding performance.
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.
After all, their own money is not at risk--it's a fee. (By contrast, when they invest their own money in the funds, the profit is obviously a capital gain.) Let's be honest: It is a charade that private equity firms have claimed their 20% performance fees at the lower capital gains rate.
He cites the Historic Automobile Group International index that measures the performance of 50 popular classic cars and shows a 12% annual growth rate over the past 30 years.
Sageworks collects financial statements for private companies from accounting firms, banks and credit unions through its cooperative data model, aggregating the data at an approximate rate of 1, 000 statements a day, and analyzing the performance.
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The low power-consumption and high transmission rate can better suit the users' goals for upgrade of system performance.
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It boasts the industry's highest density as well as the highest performance level of 400 megabits-per-second (mbps) data transfer rate based on the toggle DDR 2.0 interface.
When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates.
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" Based on the total rate of incidents and their severity, "we recorded the best year in safety performance in our company's history.
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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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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It also includes the price-earnings ratio as a basic valuation measure, the earnings growth rate to examine recent growth, and the 52-week relative price strength to highlight stock market performance relative to other companies.
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.
The center is meeting its performance standards, and its 77% retention rate is more than twice as good as Sprint's call center in the Kansas City suburbs.
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%.
In 1996 researchers at the University of Texas announced a new battery design offering high performance and a fast rate of charge.
As video resolution and frame rate increase and stereoscopic projects multiply, the storage capacity and bandwidth performance of these devices and systems becomes staggering.
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.
Early on, Schacht and McGinn gathered their top executives to tell them the performance bar was going way up: Sales must rise at double the old rate, and the earnings growth rate must triple.
The Huskies earlier had been ordered to sit out the 2013 NCAA tournament, because of its past players' sub-par academic performance rate.
The fund charges an annual management fee of 1.25% plus a performance fee of 20% on returns exceeding the U.S. Treasury bill rate.
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