Word: benchmarking
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...James Vance and Dan Burr, will finally be reprinted in an affordable, attractive and widely-available paperback edition. A remarkably sensitive and engrossing book from the late 1980s, when the medium got its first - short-lived - shot at mainstream appreciation, it remains, even 15 years later, a benchmark against which others in the genre can be measured...
...alumnus of Harvard College, I cannot help but feel that this is truly a sad event for Harvard. Lawrence Summers brought a vision to Harvard that put it in a position to continue to set the benchmark for American universities into the 21st century. Among Summers’ major accomplishments, he advocated the recruitment of disadvantaged, lower-income students, leading the Ivy League and other elite universities to slash expected parental contributions and make up the difference in scholarships and grants, an initiative I have seen succeed first-hand as an alumni interviewer for Harvard. Further, it was during Summers?...
...that the Dylan comparisons matter much anyhow: if Bejar keeps producing albums as good as this one, he will become a benchmark of excellence in his own right...
After closing above 11,000 for the first time since June 2001 on Monday, and sparking a day-long debate on Wall Street as to whether that benchmark even matters, the Dow Jones industrial average briefly gave up enough ground on Tuesday to dip below the threshold before jumping back once again. Look for more see-saw moments ahead as the Dow tries to eclipse its all-time high of 11,723, which was reached six years ago and which many market pros believe finally will be seen again later this year. That's not exactly a news flash...
...benefit of current and future generations of students, not for the benefit of current and future generations of fund managers.” Managers at HMC receive a base salary of $400,000 and a bonus that is tied to how their portfolio performs relative to a benchmark measuring market performance. The system also includes a “clawback” provision, which withholds part of the earnings dependent on future returns. University officials have indicated that the compensation plan is here to stay under the firm’s new chief, Mohamed A. El-Erian, who will take...