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The year 2020 will then be taken as a benchmark.

That may be how you set a low benchmark for next season.

It will also be under the industry benchmark of 100 percent in 2005, they said.

I would also call the state education board and ask them just what they mean by this benchmark.

Using this benchmark, almost 30 percent of families fall short.

The standard may be a company policy or other benchmark.

Too soon to write them off but the benchmark has been set very high already.

Nor would you want running a benchmark to, like, get in its own way.

My benchmark is so high that no matter what I do, it's never going to be enough.

And, of course, no benchmark is ever going to be perfect.

What benchmarks were used to get this 2-3 times figure?

Those are the benchmarks by which we will judge the report.

The movie was a huge hit, and the campaign became an industry benchmark.

Once the benchmark is finished and public, people will be able to see for themselves.

I am sure that the report will be an important benchmark as we follow the development of the information society.

The other major benchmarks also rose 2 percent or more.

Is this going to be the final death of benchmarks?

The benchmark that each university has is not a target.

The only benchmark some people have is what their peers are making.

The price of the benchmark 30-year issue fell a full point, to 93 2/32.

Moreover, it is hard to know what the benchmark should be.

Well, the time has come for a new generation of benchmarks.

But the study does provide a benchmark for future surveys.

"I just want to be the benchmark in this industry," he said.

In each of these areas, there are clear benchmarks to be met.

Clearly we need, and are seeing, benchmarking by our companies.

"I am not benchmarking against anybody else, because all the media companies are different," he said.

Still, some analysts say that the company is not benchmarking the right things.

And if your company isn't benchmarking yet, it probably should be.

All proposed legislation is to be benchmarked against that act.

"It represents a 300 percent increase over 1995, the earliest year we benchmarked."

Benchmarking the performance of businesses is first and foremost a task for industry itself.

The following year was benchmarked by winning new strategic borders.

These are benchmarked against a diverse array of international talent.

Iquitos has been benchmarked over the years in literature and film.

Salary is usually benchmarked against the boss's pay in rival companies.

Assessment was expected to allow research groups to be benchmarked against national and international standards across discipline areas.

This standard should be established nationally and benchmarked to the highest in the world.

He describes a trap I feel myself falling into sometimes - that of benchmarking everything.

Are the metrics standardized, so they can be benchmarked against performance in other organizations?

One important function of a population census is to provide data that can be used for benchmarking smaller surveys.

We couldn't have benchmarked the card properly until those were fixed with 10.6.2.

The coefficient of cost and time spent entertained seems to be benchmarked by going to the cinema.

You can also benefit from benchmarking your processes against similar businesses and adopting best practice throughout.

Other chemical manufacturers were an obvious choice, but we also benchmarked against several food processing companies.

For three days last fall he was assessed, interviewed, benchmarked and mentored.

That is indeed not something which is so easily measured or benchmarked.

This approach has led to over 400 of our key suppliers having their performance against these areas benchmarked with implementation plans being set as appropriate.

These approaches are usually benchmarked to a persistence approach in order to evaluate their improvements.

This process normally involves benchmarking the policy against those of competitors or companies in similar industries.