Word: benchmarking
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...games, O’Hagan has more passing yards and touchdowns than Fitzpatrick did in his sophomore year. And although Fitzpatrick split time with Neil Rose ’03 that season, the current St. Louis Ram’s career path certainly isn’t a bad benchmark for any Harvard quarterback...
...over the Tigers at Baker Rink, finishing its first road trip of the season 1-1. Sophomore forward Jon Pelle netted the eventual game-winner four minutes into the third period with a high shot to the left post that beat Princeton goalie Eric Leroux. It was a crucial benchmark for Harvard (2-1-0, 2-1-0 ECAC), which came into the night after dropping a 5-2 stunner to ECAC-rookie Quinnipiac the night before. It was a mediocre weekend for Harvard, which came into Friday’s game after a 6-2 thumping of Dartmouth. Against...
Ongoing studies of identical twins have measured achievement motivation--lab language for ambition--in identical siblings separated at birth, and found that each twin's profile overlaps 30% to 50% of the other's. In genetic terms, that's an awful lot--"a benchmark for heritability," says geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute. But that still leaves a great deal that can be determined by experiences in infancy, subsequent upbringing and countless other imponderables...
...stock market crash, will step down on Jan. 31. By then, many believe he'll have finished his nearly two-year campaign of boosting short-term interest rates from the historic lows reached after the Internet bubble burst in 2000. If so, Bernanke would take the helm with the benchmark fed funds rate at about 4.5%, considered neutral in terms of growth, leaving him with plenty of immediate operating room-and just possibly a stock market finally getting some lift...
...Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday. That's not the sound of a central banker about to start sitting on his thumbs. The Fed has been raising short-term rates for a couple years-from a fed funds rate of 1% to 3.75%. Economists expect him to keep boosting the benchmark rate to about 4.5% next year...