"This fund did exactly what it was supposed to do," he said, "and it beat a very appropriate benchmark."

Urges the President to take specified trade, assistance, and financing actions against a country that has not complied with the appropriate benchmarks.

Where performance is measured by any appropriate benchmark, and space is size of the computer.

They established appropriate benchmarks for conforming loans and brought transparency and standardization to the housing finance system.

But it is an appropriate benchmark only if the manager focuses only on the few growth stocks - mostly Internet issues - that dominate the index.

So either newsletter editors suddenly became geniuses in 2000, or the Nasdaq was not the appropriate benchmark to use to judge their performances.

Funds that outperform their appropriate benchmarks are the exception.

Thus, the risk-free rate is an appropriate benchmark to use for measuring the relative return of absolute return strategies.

This is achieved, when its appropriate benchmark reaches the level of commercial success, like it was the case before the onset of decline.

THS continues to maintain and improve its performance against appropriate external benchmarks.