But FASB's biggest crime against the economy and the American people came when it decided to measure the impossible: options expensing.
When you measure relative strength, you want to measure it from the most recent lows.
Such data weren't readily available when the MPAA sought to measure piracy in 2004.
You know, historically, Memorial Day weekend is when you begin to take measure, and fans of these teams will say wow.
Sentiment indicators are used by investors, both corporate and portfolio investors, as ways to measure when to put money to work.
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Indeed, another wrinkle to monetarism is that when the truly flawed measure that is GDP lags, their solution is to flood the market with even more dollars.
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On Friday, when Gramm rose to block the measure, it was more with a whimper than a bang.
Pielke's team studied more than a century of storms, spanning a period that included decades when meteorologists lacked the technology to measure wind speeds at a storm's center with any certainty.
The last attempt to revoke the measure fizzled in 2008, when the global financial crisis threatened to sap Canada's finances.
Who can blame them, when the measure that is used to define safe limits - 'units' - is so hard to understand?
He has been sent for to make a coat for Prince Frederick, and when he came, was ordered to go and take measure of him in the room where the King was.
For many the question was simply when to do this and how to make peace with those who oppose the measure.
When it comes to an accessible, quantitative measure of energy, consumers are uniquely familiar with the 100W bulb.
She also needs to stir the fire when she faces the crowds of curious folks who want to take her measure.
This manual press on the Up helps the app to know when you first lie down in bed, so it can measure how long it takes for you to fall asleep.
We must also do more to help children when their schools do not measure up.
Investors often fail to measure from a zero baseline when they are considering investment decisions and their potential risk.
But the money has brought into the open simmering disputes about the merits of the project, how properly to measure them and what happens when the money runs out.
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Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said he hoped for increased discussion on funding armed security officers in schools but voted in favor of the measure promising to negotiate details when it reaches the Senate floor.
If driving rates down to zero was, above all, a measure to combat deflation, the policy should be abandoned only when the threat of deflation is lifted.
However, as part of the consultation, Bishop Tartaglia, who is tipped to be the next Archbishop of Glasgow when Mario Conti steps down, said such a measure would pile the pressure on any church which chose not to carry them out.
Sensors measure when enough water has been applied to the fire to extinguish it.
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"This is the biggest step a city has taken to curb obesity, " Bloomberg said when the measure passed.
Labor unions say HIT used to have more than a thousand directly employed workers until the late 1990s, when it began to outsource as a cost-cutting measure.
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The only "no" vote came from Texas congressman Louie Gohmert, who said it was madness for lawmakers to waste time on such a measure when more high-profile issues loomed, such as the federal debt.
In 2003 it was adopted by the then Labour government as the best official estimate of inflation for the Bank of England to use when setting interest rates, replacing another measure, RPIX, which excluded mortgage interest payments.
When growing a community it is fairly natural to want to measure how well we are doing and how healthy the community is.
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An aide told CNN that Reid decided to cancel the test vote when it became clear the measure would fall well short of the 60 votes needed.
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When Robert Levine of California State University in Fresno tried to measure the speed of life in different countries some years ago, Germany proved the third-fastest (behind Switzerland and Ireland).
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But how to measure all the informal communication that crops up when people are physically in the same place?
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