What really matters is price, which is, at least through one important metric, historically below average.
Data centers and offices accounted for 1.2 million metric tons through the purchase of electricity, representing less than 0.01% of global electricity consumption, according to the company.
In a mid-April report on greenhouse emissions, the agency now says that tighter pollution controls instituted by the industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall.
And in the all-important metric of strokes gained through putting, which measures a player's proficiency at various distances compared to his competitors, Woods is the best on the PGA Tour, gaining 1.476 strokes on the field each round.
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Information provided by Metal Pages, a news site that focuses on non-ferrous metals, ferro alloys and rare earths, indicated that rare earth elements exports have dropped 65% in 2011 and that China has only exported 11, 000 metric tons of rare earths through the first three quarters of the year.
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Through June, central banks bought just over 200 metric tons for the year so far.
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The Uptime Institute pioneered a widely adopted metric, with rankings from Tier I through Tier IV that quantify the reliability of megawatt-class power systems.
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While we believe margins will stabilize around 29% through our forecast period, the Trefis community anticipates upside to this metric as Yahoo fends off pressure from competitors.
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But top buyers Russia, Hong Kong and Egypt - which took more than half of the 896, 000 metric tons of beef that Brazil has exported this year through September - continue to import its beef, suggesting the impact could be limited.
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Almost all its sale of iron ore in China is currently through its Asia Pacific Iron Ore Division, which has a limited supply capacity of 9 million metric tonnes of iron ore.
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