Word: benchmarking
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...called for a minimum of 15 cub-bearing females every year. Yellowstone easily exceeds that, averaging 40 for each of the past six years. What's more, those mothers are not in just one cub-friendly part of the park but are dispersed throughout it, another important benchmark. Overall, the population has been expanding some 7% annually for the past several years, while mortality has been 4% or lower since...
...establishment of a women’s center at Harvard, summer housing resident director Tamia R. Jordan—in conjuction with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd—has devoted the past several months to researching possible sites and structures, most notably by conducting a benchmark study of more than 15 women’s centers at other universities...
...move to acquire Reebok, Adidas hopes to show that the athletic shoe is on the other foot. - By Peter Gumbel Oiling Russia's Markets Foreign and Russian traders experienced a bout of seemingly rational exuberance last week, as the long-stagnant Russian stock market started climbing steadily. The benchmark Russian Trading System (RTS) and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) indexes rose from 782.4 and 702.3 respectively last Monday to 803.2 and 715.4 by Friday's close. When Fitch Ratings upgraded Russia's sovereign credit rating last week to BBB from BBB-, the picture looked even rosier, and pundits pronounced...
...investment portfolio - which helps pay for priest pensions - continues to outperform the market. In March this year, London church officials hailed a yield of 13.6% for 2004, putting the fund in the top 3% of more than 700 similar British pension funds measured by the WM All Funds Universe benchmark. While Louis Henderson, spokesman for the Church Commissioners, is proud that the Church of England's portfolio is free of such sinful enterprises as pornography and gambling, he credits the recent high performance to a terrestrial treasure: real estate. "It is fortuitous that the portfolio is weighted more toward property...
...Minneapolis-based Bill Stumpf, 50, chairs, especially office chairs, have been neither a sideline nor a flashy aesthetic afterthought. The Miesian, Eamesian, entirely worthy benchmark Stumpf set for himself years ago was "to make a beautiful chair comfortable." He accomplished that by drawing on more than a decade of careful thought about chairs--not just how they ought to look, but how officeworkers lean and squirm and relax while sitting in them. Stumpf's Ergon (1976) and Equa (1984) are the two most important chairs, surely, of the past quarter-century, handsome, generous and deeply elegant. They are also ubiquitous...