It can mean a measuring rod. And so it comes to be a list that accounts as authoritative in early Christianity.

量杆的意思，所以它是一列书目,它在早期基督教里是权威的。

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Krugman massages the numbers to show that the middle class has been left behind, including a chart measuring median (and mean) family income over the last 75 years.

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Perhaps the key to making events work is measuring ROI, which can mean sales for outside events and improved productivity for internal meetings, a metric which Dwyer admits can be a bit nebulous.

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Moreover, it would mean abandoning any hope of measuring even genuine improvements in educational standards.

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