| 单词 | yardstick |
| 例句 | I understood already that I’d be measured by a different yardstick. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I took new interest in the torpedo-fish with their crackling shocks; in the turtles that paced beside yardsticks; in the mice sliced end to end, that their gestation might be viewed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One morning in 1934, he was perched atop a ladder, testing the electrical tuning coil of Sloan’s X-ray machine by poking at it with a wooden yardstick fitted with a nail at the end. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Greeks would figure out the ratio by dividing the line into tiny pieces, using, for example, a standard or yardstick half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And if you didn’t listen to her, she would make you bend over and whack you with a yardstick ten times. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d be the yardstick of the perfect relationship, the truest love. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “There can only be one yardstick for our conduct,” he said in 1935. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I saw Mr. Alums point the yardstick at someone somewhere in the class and say, “Perhaps you’d like to finish the introduction, I think you know our guest quite well.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat up straight, like someone had slipped a yardstick down the back of her bright red business suit. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Using the same yardstick, we see that the diagonal gets...well, almost 34 segments, but it doesn’t come out quite evenly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When he saw me he made me put a can on the end of a yardstick and stand up on the bow while he shot at it from the stem. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He parked his car briskly at the door of the school, stalked boldly into the room, found a yardstick leaning against Miss Gunderson’s desk, and climbed hand-over-hand to the top. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Instinctively, I felt that I was lying on my back, not my stomach, but I really was doing neither—most normal yardsticks disappear in space, and I was no more lying than standing or falling. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His perch is a section of a sturdy old-fashioned yardstick, triangular in cross-section. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Alums slammed the yardstick on his desk and the class got real, real quiet. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw Mr. Alums walking back and forth whacking a yardstick in his hand. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z However, to make any sort of measurement, you need a standard, a common yardstick, to compare to the size of the lines. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He straightened up again and fumbled at his side, perhaps for a yardstick. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Macon knocked it out of the chair and with a yardstick pushed it into the bathroom, where he doused it with alcohol and burned it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuart ran for the yardstick and slid down, like a fireman coming down a pole in a firehouse. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “We all have this yardstick inside ourselves, but it just isn’t sought enough. Maybe because it is the most difficult yardstick,” she explained in a letter to her boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For all time since the arrival of Christ, he had lived on seventeen inches of a yardstick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The first step, again, is to create a common yardstick, perhaps a tiny ruler half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If Evan was the yardstick for what made a “man,” then she’d rather just meet boys the rest of her life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z However, without a common yardstick, it is impossible to express the two lines in a ratio. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Again, there’s no yardstick for that kind of thing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z With a half-inch yardstick we can divide the foot-long side of the square into 24 segments, each half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The next step is to use that yardstick to divide each of the two lines into equal segments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Using J. T.’s franchise as a yardstick—3 officers and roughly 50 foot soldiers— there were some 5,300 other men working for those 120 bosses. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Fifty days was a better yardstick when Watts first set up his drum kit. 50 and counting for Rolling Stones 2012-11-13T20:40:38Z By any normal yardstick, it's an ugly moment! We needed to hear Melania Trump say "Who gives a f*ck about Christmas" 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z That should be the yardstick against which all else is measured. What Makes Sustainable Fashion? 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z That last yardstick is the one copped by , Marvel’s updating of a trilogy that earned nearly $2.5 billion in worldwide movie houses and concluded just five years ago. The Not-Quite-Amazing Spider-Man Wins the Weekend 2012-07-08T14:59:20Z Treasured pieces function as prompts or inspirations; as models for composition and technique; they contribute to the development of an aesthetic theory and serve as yardsticks against which to measure oneself. Beyond influence 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z By the first yardstick, Season 4 is ambitious but uneven; by the latter, it’s the series’ best. Season 4 of ‘Orange Is the New Black’: It’s About Time 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “There’s a super slow-motion camera on one of the pylons in the end zone, and a camera on the yardstick for the chain gang.” Super Bowl practice run for Fox at Dolphins’ preseason game 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Money is the yardstick by which a person’s value is measured and dignity allotted: Emmit, prudent and wise, has steadily amassed wealth and privilege and become a pillar of the community. ‘Fargo’ Season 3 Finale: Bled Out 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z What Butler’s got going on is more artisanally illustrious than Iverson’s, which, nonetheless, remains the yardstick by which all other braided basketball hair is measured. Trae Young: Your Hair Is an Unsolved Mystery. But a Magnificent One. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The film includes a quote that the press is a yardstick of the nation. How Mike Wallace changed TV journalism: "You had to compete" 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z As always, nature provides the yardstick: The farther we stray from natural balance, the worse off we are. 'Queen of the Sun': Documentary hopes to ease sting of honeybee crisis 2011-03-03T21:01:09Z Life in rural eastern Tennessee — bars, fishing, back roads, moonshine, boots, the Bible — is a point of pride and a yardstick for whether a partner is worth keeping, especially if she’s a city gal. The Predictable Return of Morgan Wallen 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Intelligence is the wrong way to think about interior lives of other animals because it measures with a human yardstick, we’re missing their other unique abilities that we may not call intelligence. Suicidal dogs and bipolar wolves 2012-09-26T22:56:00Z The next day, speaker after speaker urged a different yardstick for raising and killing animals: Which methods caused the least suffering? Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Many New Yorkers saw the British ballet style as the divinely moderate yardstick by which they judged the different excellences of American and Russian styles. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z Measured by the usual yardstick – how much you can do with it – consumer technology keeps getting more amazing. Why the digital era is destined to fail us | Oliver Burkeman 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Conventional yardsticks of success – status, fame, and so on. Why most self-help plans don’t work: “You can’t just cut and paste a few things happy people do and hope that your life is going to improve” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The little guys are measured by different yardsticks. Ice Age 4 Wins a Chilly Weekend Before The Dark Knight Rises 2012-07-15T21:16:03Z But why insist that chick-lit reflect the issues facing its readership when no other genre is measured by the same yardstick? The chick-lit debate: light doesn't have to mean stupid 2010-08-05T08:39:00Z Iceland itself became a kind of yardstick against which Morris measured the follies and iniquities of Victorian Britain. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z One from GE suggests you wrap a washcloth around the end of a wooden yardstick and secure the cloth with tape or rubber bands. How to clean the grime between the panes of an oven door 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The red carpet extravaganza is prestigious in its own right, but it is also a crucial yardstick for the Academy Awards around the corner. Screen Actors Guild Awards 2015 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Everyone has a different yardstick for success, whether it’s marriage, children, a satisfying career, or owning a dog, a car or a home. Modern Love: For the Jobless, Relationships Are Different 2010-04-30T17:53:00Z It also measured the financial yardstick against the 1991 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King. Fox News: Black deaths, stock market graphic was insensitive 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Sun Tzu, author of “The Art of War,” acts as strategist for Hades and Lucifer; heaven is a re-education camp overseen by the Archangel Michael, wielding a sparkly yardstick. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z As HBO’s most heavily promoted drama since "The Sopranos," "Boardwalk" was doomed to be measured by that formidable yardstick, a comparison Winter wisely opted to mute by casting an entirely different type of actor. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Time to celebrate 2010-10-18T05:01:00Z Besides, there’s a bigger yardstick for Mr. Batiste and Mr. Colbert: Paul Shaffer’s landmark run as bandleader and sidekick to David Letterman, on two groundbreaking late-night shows. Jon Batiste Will Lead ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Band in a Style He Sees Fit 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Crumbine took an invention known as the Fly Bat — a screen attached to a yardstick — and renamed it the Fly Swatter, which became the generic term we use today. Makers: Who Made That Fly Swatter? 2012-05-27T06:55:04Z Somehow, Keats’s “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” is a crueler yardstick of our place in the world than the fizzy fakery of New Year’s Day. Social Q’s: Photo Op 2013-08-29T22:37:59Z Measuring it against the yardstick of masterpieces is not useful; I was very glad that it was played, and that I got to hear it. Review | Unexpected Rachmaninoff, majestic Italy in NSO concert 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z As Nukain knows all too well, the problem with artistic achievement is that it becomes a yardstick that subsequent work is measured by. Review | Dynamic production of ‘Painted Rocks,’ a mediocre Fugard play at MetroStage 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z But that omission is the fault of the yardstick, not the subject. Mushrooms show off their healthful side in Ellie Krieger’s rustic pasta dish 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But he continued to measure himself on the yardstick of the Great American Novel. The Great American Novel Buried in Norman Mailer’s Letters 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In "Experiment for Myself as Other," Abeles uses a broom and a yardstick among other objects as surrogate hands, to release the shutter. The ultimate self-portrait? Identity through the lens of Kim Abeles 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z In other words, maybe we’re measuring male friendships with a female yardstick. American men’s hidden crisis: They need more friends! 2013-12-08T00:00:00Z "It's a double comeback," agrees Alex Miller, executive editor of vice uk, a yardstick for youth culture. Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here 2012-02-11T13:17:39Z Is it significant that more women, to choose one obvious yardstick, are running major theatres? Meet the new guard running British theatre 2013-02-17T20:30:01Z Progressiveness — both artistic and social — is measured by the way black women are depicted in the paintings of the period; this yardstick is also applied to subsequent generations of European, American and African artists. 27 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Using that yardstick, Crest Animation/Lionsgate's "Alpha and Omega" is far from an emotionally rich, fulfilling experience. 'Alpha and Omega': A too-tame 3-D animated adventure 2010-09-16T22:17:00Z The first is the yardstick it uses to compile its World's Tallest Buildings List – and will determine if One World Trade Center truly meets its claim. Will One World Trade Center really be the tallest building in the west? 2013-05-02T10:32:00Z His mother, a professor of Spanish and French, and his father, a restaurateur, wanted him to become a doctor, a lawyer, a businessman: the conventional yardsticks for success in a Greek-American family like theirs. Arts & Leisure: Alexander Payne?s New Film, ?The Descendants? 2011-11-09T13:00:06Z As an annual yardstick of Britain's musical talent, summer festivals help to shape the male-dominated status quo. Glastonbury is better than most – but it's still a sausage fest 2013-06-26T14:57:11Z He was highly respected as an artist and his art remains the yardstick by which English painters can measure themselves and their work. Anthony Caro on John Hoyland: 'He was every inch a painter' 2011-08-02T11:08:24Z For many Americans, it was the yardstick by which to judge all other kinds of ballet classicism. Royal Ballet Has Slipped a Little From Its Peak Form 2013-12-20T20:39:50Z By those yardsticks “Own the Night” takes a clear stance. Critic?s Notebook: Lady Antebellum?s ?Own the Night? 2011-09-14T22:15:11Z Hendrix – the yardstick by which all guitarists have been measured since his death in 1970 – said: "Heaven is lying at Buddy Guy's feet while listening to him play guitar." Old music: Buddy Guy – Baby Please Don't Leave Me 2012-07-03T08:00:00Z The Bank said the change reflects new data on differences in the cost of living across countries, while preserving the real purchasing power of the previous yardstick. World Bank: 'extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The band attacked it hungrily, with Jon-Erik Kellso turning a running trumpet commentary into a riveting concerto: a mean feat by any yardstick, and surely in any age. New York Hot Jazz Festival Takes Over Players Club 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z What are the yardsticks of success when you're based in the Web? An interview with 'Bravest Warriors' director Breehn Burns 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s an approximate yardstick but does seem to be the case; the farther north you travel from the bustling seafront towns the farther back you go in time. Back to Provence 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z To establish just how larger women differed from average women, Malsin, an engineer with experience plotting curves on railroad tracks, devised a malleable yardstick to measure the figures of 4,500 Lane Bryant customers. Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z Of the two approaches, using a yardstick seems like a better bet because of its wider cleaning surface. How to clean the grime between the panes of an oven door 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z By what yardstick can we suggest that some are more legitimate than others? How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z For many a group on the jam-band scene, songs are outside preoccupations, useful mainly as springboards, and hardly the yardstick by which the enterprise should be judged. Music Review: Umphrey?s McGee at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-09-09T23:42:12Z And it wasn’t drugs — he was as straight as a yardstick. Making Space in Marriage, Even as the Walls Close In 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But there’s more at stake than personal victories, and yardsticks of success or failure beyond trophies. ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ streaming seek Emmy Awards glory 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Eponymous phenomena are much rarer in the social sciences, for the obvious reason that consensus is harder to reach: the social world doesn't provide the unambiguous yardstick of a meter reading. Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review 2012-09-28T09:02:01Z And he is constantly using his own writing as a yardstick with which to measure Obama’s. Obama’s Inspector Javert 2012-07-17T11:45:00Z Nine months and one election later, however, the show has become a yardstick for our warped, present moment. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Romantic infatuation provided me with a goal, a way to know who I was, however flimsy the yardstick. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Once again, the biennial meets my yardstick for a successful survey: At least a third should be worth seeing. 'Made in L.A.' biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Visible in the “Atomgrad” pictures are wooden yardsticks, placed by the artists. Art in Review: Jane and Louise Wilson 2013-07-18T20:53:48Z By any yardstick, "Duck Dynasty" has enjoyed extraordinary success. 'Duck Dynasty' audience ebbs even as Phil controversy fades 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z It was impressive, and not just by the yardstick of their age. Alt-Rock Hub, Purring With Jazz 2010-08-26T19:16:00Z The festival offered up funk as motion, as repetition, as a mathematical pattern, as a process, as a communal project, as a yardstick of history and a reason to just dance. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Get Funky 2012-06-10T19:23:59Z It is also one of the few national institutions that has a dried plant collection, an herbarium, of cultivated plants that could act as a yardstick for such a flora. Got milkweed? One man’s research efforts into plant biodiversity. Beefheart made several other great, and certainly less difficult, albums, but it remains the yardstick by which his peculiar genius is measured. Captain Beefheart obituary: rock's father of invention 2010-12-19T00:08:01Z It took us not very long to decide that this collection was the yardstick by which all the others were to be measured. TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work 2011-01-24T19:30:01Z That depends in part on how much you believe the old yardsticks of authority — projecting gravitas, finishing terms in office — still matter. TV Review: 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z As a schoolgirl in Brooklyn, Betty Rhyzyk once grabbed the yardstick from Sister Mary Ignatius, the teacher who was about to spank her, and whacked the nun instead. Review | Michael Connelly’s new Bosch book is one of this month’s best thrillers and mysteries 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z When her performance opened the Sadler’s Wells Ballet’s season at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1949, it became a yardstick for local ballet, the standard to which dancers in New York aspired. Critic’s Notebook: That ’40s Pas de Deux? You Can Still Catch It 2013-08-28T21:52:03Z “He became my yardstick that you judge everybody by,” said Mr. Connor, who began advocating him to Mr. Lloyd Webber. Alex Brightman Rides a ‘School of Rock’ Wave 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z “Though the Bechdel test is, of course, an over-simplified yardstick for feminism in film, it remains a simple, straightforward way to begin the conversation about how any given movie humanises its female characters,” she wrote. Ava DuVernay backs 'DuVernay test' to monitor racial diversity in Hollywood 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z For now, I simply tried to measure Saul by the yardstick: would I want to watch this show if I knew none of the references, none of the characters’ back stories? Better Call Saul: Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young(er) Man 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I like these moderately humble prizes, because they are in the necessary business of encouragement, with literary quality as the essential yardstick. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z Without firm statistics on violence against female tourists, the closest yardstick is violence against local women — which experts say far outnumbers the better-known tourist attacks. Women Alert to Travel’s Darker Side 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Pandemic humor is built into the staging — during the vaudevillian number “All for the Best,” Jesus and Judas brandish yardsticks, rather than canes, and measure the distance between them. ‘Godspell’ in 2020: Masks, Partitions and a Contactless Crucifixion 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z I say confusion because the world is filled with things, big things, unsuited to competition and perfect for “good enough”; things that can’t be ranked because there’s no universal yardstick by which to measure them. The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z We assume we can predict how people will respond by their character and backbone, but it turns out those are wholly irrelevant yardsticks. I was a hostage at the 2018 Trader Joe's shooting. Here's what I know now about trauma 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z "The dollar is now the yardstick of cultural authority," Franzen lamented, "and an organ like Time, which not long ago aspired to shape the national taste, now serves mainly to reflect it." Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z But that book hasn't appeared yet, and until it does its use as a yardstick for measuring an actual work is speculative and improper. Response: Though I didn't have his diaries, my biography of Nikolaus Pevsner is still reliable 2010-07-27T23:05:00Z “A master of order, my husband was,” she writes, and then plucks out a hammer, some pliers, a yardstick and some screwdrivers, giving away the rest of his snickarbod to her children and their friends. Hygge Gets Heave-Ho as Swedes, Norwegians Join the Fun 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z That is the way it is, actually, in all the various numerical yardsticks of all this crud - it's bigger than it was. Age no obstacle for vintage Iggy & the Stooges 2013-05-07T16:35:08Z And when mastery of a craft is the measure, Michael Jackson’s divine abilities remain the yardstick by which others are measured and against which today’s masters still measure themselves. Text of Jackson estate statement on 10th death anniversary 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Going by that as a yardstick of funk and not Albert King, wouldn't you say that what you are doing is into a certain kind of funk? David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z The Brooklyn-raised executive approached the project with traditional yardsticks in mind. Low record sales mean hip-hop artists must diversify to attract major music labels "Respect, transparency, diversity, sustainability and equality" should come from the heart, the mind and the soul rather than some "new yardstick" standard of conduct being reviewed and endorsed by the court of public opinion. James Beard Awards Apply a New Yardstick: Good Behavior 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z According to Fadda, this was a people “constantly being rammed in” by the buffers of colonial oppression, and that consequently must be held accountable to no Western yardstick. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z They said that’s a possible yardstick for how many people could be protected, which indicates it would not be an overwhelming number of people. Democrats want Biden to declare deportation amnesty for Palestinians in U.S. 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Among the yardsticks, the Border Patrol said it detected record numbers of convicted criminals in fiscal 2023, which just concluded. Mayorkas’ border bet fails as illegal immigration rises 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z He set an ambitious goal — making sure both Israel and Ukraine “succeed” — and made it the yardstick of his leadership. Column: Biden says the U.S. must help Israel and Ukraine succeed — he's staking his reputation on it 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Using the yardstick of who was killed alone, the Hamas attack was outside the rules of war. What we talk about when we talk about terrorism — in Israel and right here at home 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z The primary yardstick for the size of a handicap space is the small van with automatic lift for wheelchairs. What Are Laws for Handicap Parking Spaces? 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The biggest yardstick for potential terrorism activity is the Terrorism Screening Data Set, also known as the terrorism watchlist. Congress probes possibility of terrorist sneaking over border 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z After some progress this last tax season on those yardsticks, the agency is now turning to the enforcement side of the ledger. IRS to hire 3,700 new employees to audit the wealthy 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Another yardstick of Mr. Ramaswamy’s momentum is Mr. Trump’s declaration that he would be open to tapping the younger man as his running mate— a role that used to belong to Mr. Pence. Ramaswamy’s rise sparks harsher criticism from his rivals 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z By mapping millions of galaxies and calculating the size of this standard yardstick at different times, astronomers can chart the expansion rate and see the effect of dark energy. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z He was referring to a yardstick setting an indicative number of residence places each year that kept skilled migrants from settling in New Zealand even if there was a demonstrable need. New Zealand to ease migration rules to lure more skilled workers 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z The automaker appears to have decided that certain candidates are independent without any yardstick, Benes said. Toyota to face governance challenge at shareholder meeting 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Indigenous Australians, who form 3.2% of a population of 26 million, fare poorly on yardsticks such as health, education and imprisonment rates. Fewer than half of Australians back Indigenous panel, poll shows 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z My point is that such hubris makes each man a rule unto himself, and we make for very poor yardsticks. Ask Dr. E: Is agnosticism more honest than Christian faith? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z In addition to measuring the BAO yardstick, Euclid’s spectroscopic survey can chronicle how gravity pulled clusters of galaxies into sheets and filaments over time, forming the cosmic web. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z As a yardstick of investor support, that puts it on a par with Deutsche Bank but far behind its bigger French rival BNP Paribas and at the bottom end of European lenders. Krupa, hard-driving veteran entrusted with reviving Societe Generale 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Using the UN's 1.5°C temperature increase threshold as a yardstick, we will need to make radical progress by the end of this decade. We abandoned nuclear power. Now, Earth is paying the price 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z One of the functions of money is a measuring tool, like a yardstick. You’ll be poor and like it 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z One yardstick, called the efficiency gap, gauges how much the votes of one party are wasted when its voters are disproportionately packed into one district or carved up among several. How to Police Gerrymanders? Some Judges Say the Courts Can’t. 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z By the FBI’s yardstick, a mass shooting happened in the United States last year nearly once a week. FBI tallied 50 mass shootings in 2022, down from 61 the year before 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z This across-the-board yardstick is relevant because district unions historically have had “me too” contracts. As talks with teachers heat up, LAUSD budget shows a higher ending balance, with caveats 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The law, which Moore revised in 1975, remains a yardstick for progress both within and beyond the chip industry, even as its continued applicability is a topic of debate. Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder who coined chip rule, dies at 94 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Money tells us how much things are worth relative to one another, in the same way that a yardstick tells us which of two people is taller. You’ll be poor and like it 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z And beneath that lies a more fundamental problem: that scientists and public health officials still have not settled on what it means to be immune or adopted a common yardstick for measuring it. How immune are we? Why answering this question is essential for post-pandemic life 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z That’s still among the worst months on record compared with any pre-Biden yardstick, but it is significantly better than the 200,000-plus encounters recorded every month from March to December last year. Border Patrol chief says border is not secure; undercuts claims of Mayorkas, Biden 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Analysts generally believe that seizures are a yardstick for the total flow, so if more drugs are being caught, more are getting through. Illegal crossings at southern border remained stable in February 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z That threshold, agreed in Paris almost eight years ago and measured against average temperatures during pre-industrial times, has become the yardstick for climate scientists who warn of the dangers of an ever hotter planet. UN chief: ‘Cold, hard facts’ should guide climate policy 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But inflation shrinks the dollar, like shrinking a yardstick, so that you need more dollars to buy the same thing, or more yardsticks to cover the same distance. You’ll be poor and like it 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Even though he makes his artwork solo, often from castaway junk he finds on his daily walks, his yardstick is the chorus of superstars on “We Are the World.” Lonnie Holley always manages to find the beauty in terror 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Analysts generally believe that seizures are a yardstick for the total flow, so if more drugs are being confiscated, more are getting through. Border Patrol chief says border is not secure; undercuts claims of Mayorkas, Biden 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “The Polish pope has been a moral yardstick, a teacher of the faith and an intercessor in heaven” for millions of Poles,” Gadecki said. John Paul abuse claims trigger angry reaction from Poland 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “Chronologic age is a very poor yardstick to assess what treatment a patient can tolerate or benefit from,” said Dr. Andrew Chapman, a geriatric oncologist and director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Column: Is 75 the right age to wait for death? Steve Lopez isn’t quite ready to pack it in 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Yet despite hot spots, sources say several key yardsticks of supplier performance like missing-parts-per-million are steadily improving. Exclusive: Airbus roiled by poor start to 2023 as industrial pressure grows 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “That was really Sally. She had such a good yardstick of real relationships. Sometimes you forget and get stuck in a rut. ‘Why am I your support? Meet the real-life 'soul sisters' who just might make '80 for Brady' a hit 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z For more than 10 years, Hong Kong has been recognized by some yardsticks as having the world’s most unaffordable housing market, particularly when comparing median household income to median housing costs. Golf Course or Housing? A Patch of Green Divides Hong Kong 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z True, a Senate Democratic majority might prevent the House from wreaking havoc on the city, but by any yardstick, D.C. has a heavy lift on Capitol Hill. Opinion | Journalism and government are struggling. Here’s why I’m optimistic. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z In Truckee, scientist Neil Lareau awoke Sunday to see that about 15 inches of snow had come down on his deck overnight, burying a yardstick that he uses as a gauge. Storm blankets Sierra Nevada in heavy snow, brings rain across California 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z That being a yardstick, the Dodgers going into 2023 are very much wanting. Letters to Sports: Soccer fans come to beautiful game's defense 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z One of his enduring features was his snow reports, in which he poked a wooden yardstick into sidewalk piles to show a storm’s accumulation. Pat Collins, ‘beat poet’ of local news, will retire after 49 years 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Senate races are a less useful yardstick because only a third of seats — or two-thirds of states — are on the ballot each election. GOP won 3 million more votes this year, but not where it counted 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z "The extraordinarily large degree of uncertainty surrounding such estimates implies that they cannot serve as a yardstick to inform the appropriate pace of interest rate adjustments. Instead, policy needs to remain data-dependent." ECB's Schnabel pushes back on smaller rate hikes 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z They’re in our heads, or in our dreams, or in all the other places where music refuses to be measured by yardsticks or clocks — a heaven too immense to even name. Review | Bill Callahan’s voice is getting deeper. So are his songs. 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z If that deceleration continues, the closely watched yardstick of consumer behavior at one of the nation’s most important retailers could go negative for the first time in five years. The fates of Target and Walmart diverge as consumers seek bargains 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z “The yardstick by which Xi measures success is more likely to continue to be health, as in the containment of the virus, and not GDP,” Qazi said. China waits until end of congress to release data on underperforming growth 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z On a council where virtually all members are Democrats, “progressive” is a shifting yardstick. Racist audio leak could push L.A. City Hall further left in Nov. 8 election 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z And all three of the Bank of Canada's core measures of inflation, its preferred yardsticks for underlying price pressures, were flat in September, with the average of the three matching August's upwardly revised 5.3%. Canada's inflation beat boosts chances for 75-bp rate hike 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z One could look at former first lady Michelle Obama as a kind of yardstick of effort. Perspective | Dangerous beauty 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z But popularity isn’t always the best yardstick for quality. Review | What’s the best frozen chicken nugget? We tried 10 brands to find out. 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z One yardstick is the mafia fee, or “piso” — literally, the tax — migrants pay to cartels to use their routes into the U.S. $20 billion payday: Biden’s border surge sends smuggling prices soaring 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z For Catherine Collins and her husband Douglas Frantz, that was a photo of a yardstick plunged 32 inches into filth below a salmon farm near Port Mouton, Nova Scotia. Salmon farming’s dirty business 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z By any yardstick, the king has gotten an enthusiastic reception. Despite a Life of Preparation, Charles Faces Growing Pains as King 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z In measuring poverty, the analysis used the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, the yardstick that best accounts for government aid. Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z A maker of yardsticks has an ink problem that causes the markings to smear on 4% of the yardsticks. Introductory Business Statistics 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z That’s worrisome because authorities say seizures are a yardstick for the overall flow: When more is caught, more is getting through. July border stunner: Enough fentanyl to kill every American 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Officials believe that seizures are a yardstick of overall flow, so the more seized, the more is likely to be getting through. Agents nab 10 more terrorism suspects at the southern border in July 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The post said that Siri “holds no official stature” and that the two-quarters yardstick is used colloquially rather than in any official capacity. Fact-checkers flag Facebook, Instagram posts criticizing White House’s definition denying recession 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z It rather depends on the yardstick you are using to measure intelligence. Review | If plants, animals and machines are intelligent, what does it mean for us? 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z What is the probability if a sample of 100 yardsticks is checked, there will be ink smeared on at most 4 yardsticks? Introductory Business Statistics 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z Morgan Stanley disclosed on Thursday that it expects to pay a $200 million fine, the same amount JPMorgan Chase paid as authorities use that settlement as a yardstick for the industry. Largest U.S. investment banks face fines on employees’ app use 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also doesn’t have solid yardsticks to measure its success, even as the number of people ICE enrolls soars, the Government Accountability Office said in the exhaustive new analysis. Up to 33% of ICE catch-and-release migrants abscond: GAO audit 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet those traditional Nielsen company yardsticks don’t begin to measure the true reach of what is being said there. The moments resonating from the Jan. 6 hearings (so far) 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z The Fed's rate decisions have often been a yardstick for local central banks to frame policy. Asia FX bears hit record high on hawkish Fed, China growth worries 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Seizures, like arrests of migrants, are considered a rough yardstick of the overall flow. Biden sets new monthly record for illegal border jumpers 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It is also urgent for the federal government to publicize useful yardsticks for when and how people should use masks, social distancing and mass testing. Bad COVID Public Health Messaging Is Blocking Our Path To A “New Normal” 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z In clinical trials, the Moderna vaccine was shown to generate an immune response — virus-blocking antibodies — at least as strong as the protection afforded vaccinated young adults, the agency’s main yardstick for efficacy. FDA advisers recommend Moderna shot for older children, adolescents 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z My yardstick of success is my happiness: Am I satisfied with what I’m doing? Samuel L. Jackson has no regrets. Except maybe for how the Oscars played out. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, policymakers confronted with soaring inflation are increasingly referring to the neutral rate as a yardstick to measure how high rates should rise this cycle. Analysis: An ECB quandary: the hunt for a neutral euro zone interest rate 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Some school systems have carefully structured their policies to be facially race-neutral, using other yardsticks such as geographic diversity to change the composition of their student bodies. Elite schools’ admissions policies pit minorities against each other 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z But the yardstick against which any help can be very recently compared makes it harder for ministers to look like they get the scale of the current squeeze for so many. Will government do more sooner on cost of living? 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Its common equity tier one ratio, a key yardstick of capital strength, was down to 12.9% at end of March. SocGen boosts income but costs of Ukraine war rise 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z There are limits, of course, to how effectively we can rely on personal experience as a yardstick, even when it sometimes feels like the only yardstick we have. From ‘Turning Red’ to ‘Everything Everywhere,’ the Asian (North) American mom goes mainstream 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Petite: Your willingness to be a good-humored human yardstick for your students tells me you were in the right profession. Perspective | Ask Amy: My co-workers keep commenting on how ‘petite’ I am 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Other schools say their changes are race-neutral, using other yardsticks such as income or geographic diversity to boost minority numbers. Elite schools’ admissions policies pit minorities against each other 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Other yardsticks of border security also trended in the wrong direction, with heroin seizures spiking 173% in February. Mexicans surged as illegal immigration on border rose in February 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z A yardstick to measure England's progress hopelessly skewed. England whip up whirlwind despite defeat 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Like the megapixels on cameras or the processing speeds of computer chips that consumers once obsessed over, the features of batteries will be the yardstick by which cars and trucks are judged and bought. Carmakers Race to Control Next-Generation Battery Technology 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Each scientist’s work has helped serve as a yardstick to how quickly the continent’s environment is being altered by people around the world. Advancements in polar sailing allow travelers to explore Antarctica’s little-visited areas 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z A common yardstick is that 25 kg of uranium enriched to 90% is what is theoretically needed for one bomb. Iran nuclear talks appear near climax, but no deal yet 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Those informal yardsticks vary from time to time, sometimes from State to State, and even from one congressional district to another within the same State. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Meyer, with the King County Sheriff’s Office, said he believes the days of using infractions as a yardstick for policing is on its way out. Traffic tickets in WA are way down, yet traffic is returning to normal 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z For fans of Neeson as action hero, “Blacklight” may be something of a disappointment, at least measuring it against the yardstick of previous thrillers in this particular branch of the actor’s body of work. Review | Liam Neeson plays an avenging grandpa in the formulaic thriller ‘Blacklight’ 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z In another positive sign, Uber has been profitable for two consecutive quarters under a financial yardstick called “adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.” Uber posts 4Q profit as ride-hailing service bounces back 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z There is no conceivable way that yardstick could be used and separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches remain. Supreme Court reasserts congressional supremacy by striking down Biden’s business vaccine mandate 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Senators must satisfy a number of informal qualifications for office—various extralegal yardsticks based on such factors as party, name familiarity, gender, ethnic characteristics, and political experience. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Jaddou agreed with the recommendations about data collection, yardsticks and improving conditions for those in the backlog. Visa program for illegal immigrant crime victims riddled with fraud, audit finds 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z But, even at only 25, Warholm knows he needs other yardsticks to judge himself by now. Warholm recalibrates after record run 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Community transmission has been a yardstick in the past. Opinion | Back to school classrooms: big benefits, big uncertainty, no simple answers 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Published online by the journal Health Affairs, the report is an annual yardstick measuring health care’s impact across the economy. US health tab hit $4T as gov’t opened spigot to fight COVID 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The weather service said it forecasts “tremendous snow accumulations at pass levels with yardsticks required for snow measurement.” Winter storm slams Northern California before heading south 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z “Even by the traditional yardstick — money — contributions to the welfare of others by financially wealthy people don’t merit disproportionate attention,” Scott wrote. MacKenzie Scott won’t say how much she’s giving ‘this time’ 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z “No country has the right to judge the world’s vast and varied political landscape by a single yardstick,” they wrote. Ahead of Biden’s Democracy Summit, China Says: We’re Also a Democracy 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z When it came to continuing the mask mandate this fall, she didn’t point to a yardstick to measure progress against. Faced with pushback, Bowser administration holds firm on easing mask mandate 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Evidence abounds that good taste — long considered the yardstick of personal merit by record-store employees and Tumblr users — is, in the realm of politics, even more of a performance. What Did Romney and Sinema’s Halloween Costumes Really Mean? 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z By using cash as a universal yardstick, economists intrinsically underrepresent the needs, and even the rights, of the poor, who have contributed negligibly to the climate crisis. It’s time we stop listening to economists on climate change 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z And key yardsticks of illegal activity, including unaccompanied juveniles and families traveling with children, saw drops. Border chaos continues in October with record-setting arrests 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z "If we don't manage that - 1.5 degrees is our yardstick, it's in our provisional agreement ... then we have failed in the coalition talks," he said. Greens warn German coalition is far from a done deal 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z As such, the popular Model 3 sedan, which is versatile in its own right, is an excellent yardstick to measure against. Edmunds compares the Tesla Model 3 and Volkswagen ID.4 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The seven-day infection rate has long ceased to be the only yardstick for COVID-19 policy in Germany, but officials say hospitals are filling up in badly affected areas. German COVID infection rate at new high as vaccinations slow 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z A vital yardstick is excess mortality, the difference between the observed numbers of deaths from all causes and what would normally be expected over the same time period, without the pandemic. Opinion | The official pandemic death toll is 5 million. But millions more perished because of it. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The races may provide a yardstick on whether the liberal wing of the Democratic Party can still dominate in the country’s bluest areas. Governors and more: What to watch in Tuesday’s elections 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z But inside government, there is intense focus on what will happen and there are yardsticks by which ministers will measure success. COP26: Has Boris Johnson got what it takes to get a deal? 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Goodboe, according to friends, judged his work by a similar yardstick: whether terrorists could threaten Americans or the United States. A C.I.A. Fighter, a Somali Bomb Maker, and a Faltering Shadow War 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z By that yardstick, Tokamak Energy’s overall value is around £317 million. Nuclear Fusion Edges Toward the Mainstream 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Under the law, Social Security’s payments are tied to the Consumer Price Index, a Labor Department yardstick for inflation. Social Security checks to increase 5.9% under cost-of-living adjustment 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z One of the biggest industry objections is that the House bill would use lower prices in other advanced counties as a yardstick for Medicare. Ban on negotiating Medicare drug prices under pressure 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Indeed, depending on the yardstick and the spinmeister, the power brokers could still act quicker than they did in 2012 to replace the B.C.S. A 12-Team Playoff Isn’t a Done Deal. Math and History Suggest a ‘Yes’ Looms. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The inter-Korean communication lines have remained largely dormant for about 15 months, so restoring them could be a yardstick to assess how serious the North is about its offer. North Korea launches missile as diplomat decries U.S. policy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said the labor market may soon meet her yardstick for scaling back asset purchases, while the coronavirus delta variant could raise upside risks for inflation as supply constraints last. Ford recalls Mustang SUVs over windshields 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Border analysts say seizures are a good yardstick for what’s coming through. Border chaos reverberates deep in America’s heartland 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z According to that yardstick, Northern California is having its worst year in the instrumental record. A 'thirsty' atmosphere is propelling Northern California's drought into the record books 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z It is true that U.S. carbon emissions per capita are still much higher than China’s, but that is no longer a rational yardstick. Opinion | The goals we’ve set aren’t enough to stave off global warming. It’s past time to get real. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z And use that science as a yardstick to judge the progress our societies are making to reduce emissions. Climate reporting reaches melting point 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z But no one in the business community seemed terribly surprised that tossed in was an entirely new yardstick for separating small companies from large ones. 100 Isn’t a Magic Number, So Why Is It Part of the Vaccine Mandate? 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z "That's not the right yardstick," said Amy Hawthorne, deputy director for research at the Project on Middle East Democracy, an advocacy group. Biden put rights at heart of U.S. foreign policy. Then he pulled punches 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z By that yardstick, say counterterrorism experts, the war on terror has been an undisputed success. 20 Years On, the War on Terror Grinds Along With No End in Sight 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Instead, I’ve carried the image in my head for decades, calling it up as a kind of culinary yardstick each time I roast a chicken. A Holy-Grail, One-Pot Roast Chicken 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Some mutual funds are index funds that simply follow market yardsticks, like the S&P 500. Financing your future: Here’s how to start investing | Provided by 1st Security Bank 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z “By some metrics that are straightforward we have already met the goal,” Bostic said, adding that the Fed will face inevitable questions about what yardstick it will use. Exclusive-Fed's Bostic says 'reasonable' to begin bond-buying taper in October 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Beyond the overall border apprehension number, the other yardsticks also look grim. DHS chief Mayorkas says grim border numbers are misleading 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The forecasts matter for investors who often base allocation strategies around the 10-year Treasury rate, used as a yardstick to gauge expected returns from equities, credit, emerging markets and other assets. Analysis-Ten-year Treasuries at 2%? Bring it on, investors say 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z By most yardsticks, the border is worse now than it was in March, when President Biden said it was a seasonal blip that would soon subside. DHS to expand use of speedy deportations as border crisis deepens 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z “By every yardstick that exists, the border — and not just the border areas, but the interior areas now — are in crisis.” Biden’s border ‘as bad as it’s been in memory’ 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z “He more or less invented the big-wave surfer as an archetype or a character. . . . Fifty-odd years after he rode his last big wave, he’s still the yardstick by which all other big-wave surfers are judged.” Greg Noll, swaggering big-wave surfer known as ‘Da Bull,’ dies at 84 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z White says the lab’s founding director, Robert Wilson, also applied a simple yardstick in judging their productivity: “Find a problem and solve it.” A year ago, Black physicists at Fermilab demanded change. What’s happened? 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Unemployment will fall to 4.6% at the end of this year and be back at pre-pandemic levels at some point next year, CBO said, delivering a glowing picture on the most politically important yardstick. CBO sees supercharged recovery as pandemic dissipates 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Although the June numbers aren’t complete, one yardstick — the number of unaccompanied juvenile migrants — is ticking back up after a lull. Migrant deaths rising in summer surge, rescues by border agents soaring 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z In addition to revealing health inequities within a given country, they offer a standard yardstick by which to compare the health of people in different countries. U.S. life expectancy drop during pandemic shows 'price people pay for systemic racism' 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z While court proceedings unrolled in the background, vaccines became the next yardstick for measuring which friends to keep and which businesses to frequent as daily life inched away from the pandemic. Sweet Cherries, Bitter Politics: Two Farm Stands and the Nation’s Divides 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z This is the ultimate yardstick against which we measure whether the emergency is over, since we said that our tools are meant to offset the negative effect of the pandemic on the inflation outlook. Reuters interview with ECB board member Schnabel 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Because those tests are receiving so much scrutiny, it’s easy to overlook the influence of socioeconomic background on other admissions yardsticks. The Persistent Grip of Social Class on College Admissions 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z That makes cicadas, with their patient underground waiting and their sudden, chittering emergence, an excellent tool — a kind of yardstick that can be used to measure the future or the past. Cicadas like to be on time. But are they getting confused by climate change? 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z They note that BMI was never meant as a yardstick for individual health but, rather, as a means of measuring populations. Fat shaming, BMI and alienation: COVID-19 brought new stigma to large-sized people 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s not a very stable system, if you will, and it’s a yardstick that’s moving around all over the place. Is there a future for bitcoin? An investor and a skeptic make their cases 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z She’s been “silent,” Mr. Comer wrote, even though the yardsticks show the border situation is worsening. Congressional Democrats ‘silent’ as Biden border surge spirals 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Using LBJ as a yardstick represents a rhetorical shift from the campaign, when Biden frequently invoked the New Deal on the stump. Opinion | Biden is planning for a Great Society 2.0 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed more than 50 million people, is the yardstick by which all other pandemics are measured. The Coronavirus is Here to Stay—Here’s What That Means 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z But applying this yardstick begs Justice Potter Stewart’s observation that predicting who draws a death sentence is as reliable as determining who’ll get struck by lightning. Opinion | The emotional and legal arguments against the death penalty 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Measured by any yardstick, Ruth Tuttle and her husband, Xavier Shaw, are living the dream of Black uplift. Review: When hope and change aren't enough, a successful Black woman heads back home 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z When gauging the Biden presidency, we should throw away yardsticks that are designed to measure its distance from the Trump presidency. Joe Biden's first weeks offer encouraging signs — but don't grade him on a curve 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Rubio’s fate was to become what Trump once called him, not just exuberantly but prophetically: a little man, at least by the yardstick of integrity, which is the only endowment that matters. Opinion | Marco Rubio Deserves Ivanka Trump 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Still, he said it was useful to have an ambitious but attainable goal that elected officials and the public could rely on as a yardstick for success and failure. Councilman Kevin de León wants 25,000 housing units for homeless by 2025 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It is that, rather than dollars in the bank, that is his yardstick of progress. Elon Musk's guide to getting ahead in business 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Dressed as a state trooper, he threatens to arrest anyone who isn’t social distancing and even uses a yardstick to measure. A wrestling event that plays it safe -- at least for the fans 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet a similar anecdote from a New York Times story discusses a perhaps more promising yardstick dubbed “news ecosystem quality” that Facebook internally assigns to publishers to assess the authoritativeness of their journalism. Opinion | If Facebook wants to be ‘good for the world,’ here’s what it needs to do 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The amount of drugs seized is considered a good yardstick for the overall flow, so increases suggest that even more is getting through. Illegal border crossings are surging as migrants anticipate Biden changes, DHS says 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z That yardstick doesn’t work in all situations, though. Here’s what we’ve learned about how to live in a pandemic world 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z He would also limit the initial prices for “specialty drugs” to treat serious illnesses, using what other countries pay as a yardstick. Biden looks to restore, expand Obama administration policies 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Now, the Nov. 3 election will serve as a yardstick of Seattle’s changing politics and where Chopp fits in. Ex-Washington House Speaker Frank Chopp faces challenge from the left in Sherae Lascelles in Seattle race 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z If an offensive racial opinion “is the only yardstick that we use to measure people today, they will have to pull down monuments to everybody from before 1950,” Guelzo said. Douglas statue comes down, but Lincoln had racist views, too 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Under this most reasonable yardstick, all the president’s lies add up, even if the president’s regrets never do. Review | Trump is hardly the first serial liar in the White House. But his deceptions are different. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z So instead of specifics, the guesses are pegged to two yardsticks: a program’s showing over both of the last two decades. ACC football projections: Clemson’s rise to power will be hard to match next decade 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z On a valuation yardstick known as the price-to-earning ratio, which compares the price of stocks to companies’ profits, the stock market looks expensive. Stocks Slide Again as a Promising Week Turns South 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The Air Quality Index is the yardstick the Environmental Protection Agency uses for reporting air quality. Smoke from wildfires chokes Bay Area as ozone smog threatens Southern California 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “I know Senator Harris and I both want to do the absolute best job we can in these roles. But I do think there’s a different yardstick for us.” ‘Top Cop’ Kamala Harris’s Record of Policing the Police 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z “The yardstick used to judge African founders is really different. Most of the investors are white, so having a white founder on your team helps,” he said. The black African businesses being overlooked by white US investors 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The industry fared better when using payrolls as a yardstick. PPP loans roughly in line with industry payrolls, but some stand out 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z “The sun is a fundamental yardstick,” says Martin Asplund, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. An Elemental Problem with the Sun 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Classical scientific definitions of intelligence use humans as a yardstick by which all other species are measured. A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z For many of those yardsticks, it’s too soon to grade Mr. Trump. Pandemic, protests threaten Trump’s once-promising black outreach 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z For now, those who wield the cosmic yardstick will need to “throw away anything that looks weird,” Gaensicke says, and hope for the best. The galaxy’s brightest explosions go nuclear with an unexpected trigger: pairs of dead stars 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z People of faith should apply a moral yardstick to any political coalition they join. Opinion | Trump’s refusal to address racism threatens the identity of our country 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z In South Korea, officials said the reopening of schools will likely be a major yardstick for whether authorities can maintain the relaxed restrictions. World watches as South Korea cautiously returns to life 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “As we think about what the future holds in a post-COVID world, that's going to be the yardstick by which our present leaders are measured.” Polar explorers could be models for our mental health during coronavirus pandemic, experts say 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z They also say that standardized tests offer a uniform and helpful yardstick for use, in tandem with grades, in assessing students in high schools across the country. UC makes landmark decision to drop ACT and SAT requirement for admission 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Their brightness as seen from Earth provides a cosmic yardstick, used among other things to discover “dark energy,” the unknown force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. The galaxy’s brightest explosions go nuclear with an unexpected trigger: pairs of dead stars 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Louisianans pride themselves on being able to endure disaster — but the pandemic is already proving to be worse than the yardstick by which catastrophes are measured here: Hurricane Katrina in 2005. For Louisiana, pandemic a ‘2-black-swan event’ battering economy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Judged by this yardstick, the UK was last in recession in 2008-09, when there were six consecutive quarters of negative growth. Germany tips into recession as coronavirus blights eurozone economies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z They also say that standardized tests offer a uniform and useful yardstick for use, in tandem with grades, in assessing students in high schools across the country. Napolitano recommends suspension of the SAT test for UC admissions 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z In many of these countries, an exploding national debt is a yardstick of economic malfeasance. Opinion | The national debt is out of control 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z The “jobs report,” as the release is known, provides two important labor market yardsticks: that unemployment rate, generated by a survey of households, and nonfarm payrolls, from a survey of businesses. Explainer: Why Friday's U.S. jobless figures won't capture the true state of the coronavirus economy 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Kasey Carpenter, who owns Oakwood Cafe and Cherokee Brewing + Pizza Co. in Dalton, Ga., broke out a yardstick to measure out the distance between tables. Reopened restaurants reveal dining’s ‘new normal’: masked waiters, e-menus and booth dividers 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But Mr Johnson will outline how the "R" rate will be a crucial yardstick of whether to lift, or even reinstate, restrictions as the weeks go on. Deadline day for 100,000 coronavirus tests pledge 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately, TVA is no longer the New Deal, people-oriented yardstick example by which to judge a private company. It’s the equivalent now of a private company without any regulation.” Federal utility board backs CEO under Trump’s fire for pay 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z So what yardstick should the government use when assessing these competing cries for help? Coronavirus: Six sectors still crying out for help 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Pennsylvania’s rig count, a yardstick for new well drilling, is 24, half what it was a year ago, according to Baker Hughes. Fracking Once Lifted Pennsylvania. Now It Could Be a Drag. 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The yardstick of wealth became the possession of modern commodities. How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Before he was sworn in as president, Donald J. Trump made clear that he would treat the stock market as a crucial yardstick of his success in office. Stock Market’s Gain Under Trump Vanishes 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The results provide information about how individual students and groups of students are performing — data that are used as an accountability yardstick for teachers, schools and school districts. Standardized testing: Important changes to AP, SAT; K-12 tests canceled 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z College Board and ACT Inc. officials argue that their tests offer a uniform yardstick to assess students from different schools and states and, along with high school grades, help predict college success. Is SAT test going down at UC? Several regents express deep skepticism over use in admissions 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z His signature policy, Medicare for All, became the healthcare yardstick against which all his opponents were measured. Bernie Sanders says he won the ideological battle for the Democratic Party. Is he right? 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The disengagement data is widely used as a yardstick to compare companies testing self-driving vehicles on California roads, and is often cited as evidence that Waymo leads the sector. Cruise sees rapid improvement in self-drive data in California 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “Success must be measured by the yardstick of meaningful change in people’s lives,” he said. UN chief issues 7-point ‘call to action’ on human rights 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Specifically, Wilder’s lack of a big-name rival as a yardstick of how good he really may be. Fury v Wilder II: Wilder says 12th-round knockdown will be in Fury's mind 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Of course, there are many yardsticks with which to measure the maturation of the league over the past 25 years, but this rapid expansion must be considered a sign of MLS’s overall success. 26 teams and counting: has MLS become too big for its own good? 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z We can use two yardsticks: diversity and democracy. America, if you are listening — let’s fix our elections 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Smith — whose improvement from last season can’t be measured with a yardstick but rather requires a tape measure — swatted away Mack’s game-winning attempt, and the Terps survived in College Park. Perspective | For Mark Turgeon and Maryland, nothing is guaranteed but anything is possible 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Agents believe that arrests are a rough yardstick of the overall flow. Illegal immigration at border down for the eighth straight month 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s not $165bn by traditional yardstick but it’s hard to say the exuberance is wholly irrational. Elon Musk is already walking on air, never mind flying to Mars | Nils Pratley 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z To repeat: Cage, for many viewers, will be the yardstick for measuring this movie. Review | Nicolas Cage delivers a delightful, weirdo performance in ‘Color Out of Space’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The airlines already have contraptions to measure the size of your carry-on, so they ought to be able to handle the cost of glorified yardsticks. No one weeps for the talls, I get it: But in air travel's legroom wars, we suffer 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Seizures of drugs and apprehensions of people are both considered good yardsticks for the overall flow. Illegal immigration across border down for the seventh straight month 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Plus, like the green Urban Outfitters puffer jacket and Réalisation Par leopard-print skirt before it, it had that most modern of popularity yardsticks: its own Instagram account complete with more than 20,000 followers. Pointless handbags and portentous brooches: the year in fashion 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z As a yardstick, Tennessee state government’s entire spending plan for this fiscal year is $38.5 billion. Feds: Chemical engineer at center of industrial espionage 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The Constitution’s authors would not have applied a yardstick or a veil when considering presidential malfeasance. Review | Still undecided on impeachment? Here’s some help. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z They argue that their tests are predictive of college performance and offer a uniform yardstick that allows colleges to compare students across a range of states and high schools. UC violates civil rights of disadvantaged students by requiring SAT for admission, lawsuits say 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The Part B standard premium is what many seniors use as an unofficial yardstick to track what health care is costing them. Medicare’s outpatient ‘Part B’ premium going up to $144.60 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The Part B premium is an unofficial yardstick used by beneficiaries to track what health care is costing them. Medicare’s outpatient ‘Part B’ premium going up to $144.60 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s not the sole yardstick by which to measure performance. Kentucky editorial roundup 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z But seniors and advocates complain that the inflation yardstick used to determine the annual adjustment doesn’t adequately reflect their costs, mainly for health care. Retiree checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “The yardstick gets moved every decade because the country is aging and medical care becomes better,” he said. Is Age Only a Number, Even When You’re Running for President? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The west is no longer the great example for what China might become and the yardstick to measure progress. Change will come to China, but not through following western ways | Hans van de Ven 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z What was once an afterthought is now a crucial yardstick in their rivalry. FIFA’s Best? It Depends on Whom You Ask. So We Asked. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Like Euclid, it will be using the yardstick technique. Europe's 'dark telescope' makes progress 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z With the entry of isotope analysis, ice cores and other palaeoclimate records have become invaluable yardsticks for checking future climate uncertainty. Making the planetary personal: the roots of climate science 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z By measuring how that cosmic yardstick has grown over time, astronomers can gauge the competing effects of dark energy and gravity and look for deviations. Robot detector to map cosmos for clues to dark energy 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Yet it’s never been clearer the final steps to yardstick supremacy may be a bridge too far. Serena Williams won't break Margaret Court's record - and that's OK 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The monthly arrest totals reported by the CBP are the most widely used yardstick for measuring fluctuations in unauthorized migration. Trump officials say border crossings fell again in August, heap praise on enforcement deal with Mexico - The Washington Post 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Relevance is a critical yardstick that Crawford seems reluctant to take up. Review | The thoroughly modern genius of George Gershwin 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The authors cautioned that body mass index is not a perfect yardstick. Trouble for the Pentagon: The Troops Keep Packing On the Pounds 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z By that yardstick, the judges said, Republicans would have won the House and Senate supermajority in each of those 10 elections had the new districts been in effect. North Carolina’s Legislative Maps Are Thrown Out by State Court Panel 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z And ideally, the yardsticks for evaluating academic performance should be reset. Tie institutions’ reputations to their anti-bullying record 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Even before he was sworn in as president in January 2017, Mr. Trump was treating the stock market as a yardstick of, and a referendum on, his leadership. A Year of Stock Market Fury, Signifying Nearly Nothing 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Rightly or wrongly, the citation of articles is still the main yardstick by which importance and quality in science is measured. Unethical work must be filtered out or flagged 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z He said the number of deportations was a poor yardstick for the administration’s accomplishments. Biden, other Democratic candidates take shots at Obama’s legacy 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But age was an image that Buttigieg deployed again and again, often deftly, sometimes as a metaphor, sometimes as a practical yardstick. At the Democratic Debate, Pete Buttigieg Addresses the Age Issue 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Age 12, you can feel soothed when Helen Fielding gives you that yardstick in Bridget Jones’s Diary. Beyoncé's crash diet plan sells an impossible, damaging ideal | Laura Snapes 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Matsui, whose mentoring efforts were recognized by former President Barack Obama in 2013, says his yardstick for success is “distance traveled”—how much progress students make after entering the program. A vaunted program for boosting the diversity of U.S. academic scientists is starting to spread 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z And it’s apt that the Black Caps are England’s opponents on Sunday, as they were the yardstick Morgan wanted his team to be measured by. England’s journey: From ODI embarrassment to World Cup final 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z And when mastery of a craft is the measure, Michael Jackson’s divine abilities remain the yardstick by which others are measured and against which today’s masters still measure themselves. Text of Jackson estate statement on 10th death anniversary 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z If the concept of economic growth has become central, then the yardstick of success is a three letter acronym: GDP. Is it time to end our fixation with GDP and growth? 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z But this isn’t “England” by any reasonable yardstick. Pity the poor man who’s had the Women’s World Cup shoved down his throat | Marina Hyde 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “While this approach might seem novel in today’s hyperpartisan climate, it used to be the norm. By any normal yardstick, Senator Susan Collins is a pro-choice Republican,” Clark said. "Pro-choice" Susan Collins has voted to confirm 32 anti-abortion Trump judges 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z In a statement, CMS said its starred ratings on the Nursing Home Compare website are already the best yardstick “for consumers to understand and use.” Senate report reveals nearly 400 troubled nursing homes 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The charity argues, however, that the degree to which companies are willing to engage provides a yardstick to judge the relative transparency of different sectors and generates peer pressure for greater disclosure. World's biggest firms foresee $1 trillion climate cost hit 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Those are, after all, the tangible yardsticks used to assess the success or failure of a signing. Wayne Rooney has driven a revolution at DC United 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “Test-makers long claimed that their products were a ‘common yardstick’ for comparing applicants from a wide range of schools,” Schaeffer said in a statement. Coming soon to the SAT: An ‘adversity score’ offering a snapshot of challenges students face 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The number of apprehensions is deemed to be a yardstick for the overall flow of illegal immigrants, so an increase suggests more people are probably getting through, too. Donald Trump bemoans U.S. immigration laws in interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Here I'm putting, trying to keep the Navigator hovering over a yardstick, which means the putter's face is square to my line—the yardstick. Hands-on Training: The key to great putting - Golf Digest 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z He said the town hall audience isn’t a good yardstick to gauge how invested voters are, but he said he was impressed with the cable networks’ commitment to keep doing them despite the slim numbers. CNN town halls turn into ratings catastrophe 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z “The Chinese rise to global power is dependent largely on espionage and theft of U.S. and western technologies. The United States is the yardstick against which they measure themselves,” he told Fox News. What Chinese spies want from Americans 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Kamala may be in that pack as well, at least if early polls and fundraising are the yardsticks. New York Times says white maleness may be a 2020 albatross 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The only yardstick for the general public — a highly imperfect one — will be the percentage of the report that is hidden from view. The Mueller report will be released on Thursday. Here’s a guide. 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The court issued a judgment of more than 200 pages, saying the three Occupy leaders used “a wrong yardstick” to measure the degree of disturbance their movement caused. 9 democracy activists convicted in Umbrella Movement trial in Hong Kong 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to see this as a yardstick for what a habitable planet ‘should do’. The Meaning of Life 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Social scientists have devised a host of new yardsticks in recent years for gauging partisan leanings in maps. Will the Supreme Court End Gerrymandering? Arguments Begin This Week 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Investigators said the yardsticks ICE uses to judge other countries’ cooperation — and to recommend the State Department slap visa sanctions on those who don’t play ball — are “not completely reliable.” Illegal immigrant deportations undercut by courts, recalcitrant countries 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Analysts say the number of workers isn’t the only yardstick for measuring attempts to rein in the costs of the workforce. Trump federal workforce larger than Obama era despite vows to cut 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The justices in 2013 said the government couldn’t keep using a decades-old yardstick for determining which states and localities were covered. House Dems push to revive Voting Rights Act 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Rather, investors fretted over a weak performance in China from Apple Inc - a classic yardstick for measuring demand and the health of the world’s second-largest economy. Satellites and shoe-leather: How investors get beyond China's... 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z He pointed to the U.S. balance-of-trade deficit as a yardstick measuring the “stupidity” of prior administrations that permitted trading partners such as China, Mexico, Germany and even Canada to walk all over them. Opinion | Trump thinks his supporters are the most gullible people on earth. Are they really? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z More than that, reading between the lines of her story, we are treated to an insight into an ecosystem that values money as the only yardstick creating a very odd and unstable “liberal elite”. Top 10 books about Hollywood 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The federal prison population is not a solid yardstick of immigrant crime because it represents only 10 percent of the overall prison population of the U.S. AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s skewed picture of border perils 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “The party that was to be the yardstick of ethics in politics is mixing business with politics like none other,” Boguslaw Chrabota, chief editor of the Rzeczpospolita daily, wrote in a recent commentary. Poland’s political leader on unprecedented defensive 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z But Ohioans have noses; they don’t need yardsticks to tell if something smells. Editorials from around Ohio 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Michael T. Light, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, calculated that a 1 percent increase in the unauthorized population meant 49 fewer crimes per 100,000 people — the typical yardstick for crime rates. Study finds high rates of prison, jail for illegals 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Now run by Lutheran Services Florida, Jacksonville’s Head Start program has cleaner classrooms, more teachers with college degrees, a full-time teaching coach and rising scores on the federal government’s main yardstick of classroom quality. Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: With Tighter Oversight, Head Start Shows Gains 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The lower 48 states make up only 1.6 percent of the globe, so what’s happening there at any particular time is not a yardstick of the planet’s climate. AP FACT CHECK: Trump distortions on the wall, steel, climate 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Is the intellectual fulfillment of a few gifted individuals worth giving all students an official yardstick for who’s smart and who’s not? Highly capable programs are ‘educational caste systems’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Fortier at the Bipartisan Policy Center maintains his own yardstick, the Health Congress Index, which measures how open Congress is to do business, rather than looking at accomplishments. Washington Times Legislative Activity Index finds Trump, 115th Congress historically ineffective 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Despite all the diagnostic tools available in clubfitting today, the most effective might be the simplest: a yardstick to measure the proper length for your putter. GD Tested: A mistake many golfers make when it comes to their putters - Golf Digest 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Imagine, if you will, a yardstick standing on end. Salon Interview: Tucker Carlson bashes capitalism, says he might vote for Elizabeth Warren 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z “Whether the alliance is generating value, the yardstick is not to be seen from the shareholding ratio,” Mr. Saikawa said. Renault Names New Leaders to Replace Carlos Ghosn 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z ‘No, not like that. Like this. Straight, but naturally so. No, like a tulip, not a yardstick. Better. Now, once more,’ Byron took a deep breath. In the "The Hod King," a man goes on a mystical quest when his wife vanishes on their steampunkish honeymoon 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Congress wrote fewer laws, held fewer formal House-Senate negotiations, and was near the bottom on several key yardsticks in the Senate — a reflection of Democrats’ ability to flex their filibuster powers to delay Mr. Trump. Washington Times Legislative Activity Index finds Trump, 115th Congress historically ineffective 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z He popularized and became the leading proponent of indexing, the practice of structuring an investment portfolio to mirror the performance of a market yardstick, like the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index. John C. Bogle, Founder of Financial Giant Vanguard, Is Dead at 89 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The yardstick represents the full political spectrum for a particular issue. Salon Interview: Tucker Carlson bashes capitalism, says he might vote for Elizabeth Warren 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Bogle was the leading proponent of structuring an investment portfolio to mirror the performance of a market yardstick, like the S&P 500 stock index. 5 Pieces of Advice From John Bogle 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z A key yardstick is the Hinkley Point facility in southwest England. For Wales, Nuclear Plant Would Mean New Jobs. For the U.K., It May Mean More. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The traditional yardsticks for measuring research outputs are publications or presentations at a scientific meeting, he says. How much do graduate students benefit from studying abroad? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z What yardstick am I using in such a context? The Neuroscience of Creativity: A Q & A with Anna Abraham 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z The Bulldogs gets five days to prepare for another yardstick game: Saturday at No. 12 North Carolina in the first match-up between top-tier programs since the 2017 national title game. No. 1 Kansas gets big test against No. 17 Villanova 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The Washington Post wrote that Bush, in tributes like that by Clinton who called him “honorable, gracious and decent,” has become in death a yardstick for Trump. Media coverage contrast’s George H.W. Bush’s era with Trump 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z By any yardstick, Mr. Bush was an aristocrat, a product of moneyed Greenwich, Conn., where he was instilled with an enduring sense of noblesse oblige. George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The academics used myriad yardsticks to reach their conclusions, including surveys of how people perceive violence in their countries, polling of migrants and their motivations, and employment conditions. Migrant caravan mostly standard illegal immigrants, not asylum seekers 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The Fed is dealing with very low levels of unemployment that are failing to spark levels of inflation traditional yardsticks suggest is likely. Better Family Policies Could Draw Millions of Workers Into Labor Force, Research Shows 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Officials believe that the number of illegal immigrants caught by the Border Patrol is a good yardstick for the overall flow. Illegal immigrant families shattered record in October 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z He also wrote that all signs and flags must be mounted on yardsticks -- with no pipes, thick posts or "anything in that category" allowed, he wrote. Conservatives' 'Turn California Red' rally could attract Antifa counter-protesters: report 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z None of the 48 banks subjected to the exercise fell short of the capital yardstick used in earlier tests. Uber seeks to resume self-driving in Pa. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z By that yardstick, an individual contributes more to the economy when being treated for heart problems or diabetes than when buying groceries, he says. In Virginia’s coal country, a Democratic challenger makes his case to Trump voters 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Against this background, it’s important to take empirical advances for what they are: yardsticks of iterative, self-correcting progress. What Psychedelic Research Can and Cannot Tell Us about Consciousness 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The same holds true for the rate of unemployment - another frequently used yardstick - which was measured at 3.7% in September this year. US economy under Trump: Best in history? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z If these somnolent 21st-century Tokyo salarymen shock some of us into thinking more critically about our own role in the world, then Jaszczuk is not only succeeding by his own yardstick. Legless Japanese businessmen: the photographer who caught a Tokyo epidemic 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, the S.&.P 500’s price-to-earnings ratio, a yardstick that compares stock prices to past earnings, hit its highest level in over 15 years. The Gloom Encroaching on Trump’s Stock Boom 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Then Boston achieved something close to baseball perfection, outhitting the entire major leagues and, by at least one yardstick, outpitching them, too. Opinion | I’m all Kavanaughed out. So let’s talk about baseball. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z By a number of yardsticks, though, the bank hasn’t yet persuaded investors it’s on the rebound. Embattled Wells Fargo plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He acknowledges that the path may be long but also says the target is a worthy yardstick. Constantine unveils proposed $4 million budget for his Roadmap to Zero Youth Detention 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z But by a number of classic market yardsticks, the bank still hasn’t convinced investors it’s on the rebound. Gary Cohn says he's not in talks to become the next Wells Fargo CEO — but the rumors are revealing 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z For Russia, the yardstick of success for the interview was not credibility. Tragedy? Farce? Confusion? The Method Behind That Russian Poisoning Interview 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z As for the dancing, it’s stirring and impressive, if not as flashy or heart-pounding as what’s seen on that mainstream yardstick “Dancing with the Stars.” Review: Competition and friendship warmly meet on the dance floor in 'Hot to Trot' 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But he is not being evaluated by that yardstick. Jordan Spieth illustrates golf's thin line between struggle and success, and how we perceive both - Golf Digest 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Another yardstick is to pose the negative question, “What if you don’t add a station at 85th?” Sound Transit is taking a $300 million gamble on a new I-405 bus station in Kirkland 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z By virtually any yardstick, the U.S. economy is doing great. The economy may be booming, but nearly half of Americans can't make ends meet 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z As they do that, we encourage the state to also continually refine and better define the yardstick students are being measured against. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Sequences were painstakingly obtained from diverse microbes and used as molecular yardsticks to infer how the organisms were related to one another and to animals and plants. The band of biologists who redrew the tree of life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The NSS points to opinion polls showing that a huge majority of people oppose the use of religious yardsticks for admitting pupils to taxpayer-funded schools. A cacophony of views on what to teach children about God 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Take a crude yardstick of spending: the physical footprint of the five most valuable American tech firms. Tech firms are suddenly the corporate world’s biggest investors 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z After an adjustment for one-time charges, the preferred yardstick of Wall Street analysts, the company reported earnings of 19 cents a share. G.E. Announces Progress on Cost-Cutting, but Risks Still Lurk 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The number of people caught by Border Patrol agents is considered a yardstick for the overall flow, so more people nabbed means more people are getting through. Zero-tolerance policy fails to stop migrant family surge 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The third yardstick is whether American firms underperform other multinationals and local firms. America Inc and the rage against Beijing 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But he’s not backing away from his opposition using diversity as a yardstick in hiring or academia. Candidate who called diversity ‘crap’ says context missing 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The number of people caught is considered a rough yardstick for the overall flow of people crossing, so the surge suggests that more people are also making it through undetected. Illegal immigrant children on border quadrupled in May 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The personal-consumption expenditures price index, a broad measure that serves as the Fed’s preferred inflation yardstick, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in April from March, the Commerce Department said Thursday. U.S. Inflation Firms in April, Stays at Fed Target for Second Month Straight 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z THE FACTS: Illegal crossings actually are up 20 percent since he became president, according to the yardstick he uses to measure them - the number of Border Patrol arrests. AP FACT CHECK: Trump says illegal crossings down; they’re up 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z But he appears to measure himself by a different yardstick: his ability to command attention. Opinion | Trump fires the Iran deal live on TV! 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z "It's a really good yardstick for the progression on our ability to talk about periods," he says. The fight for plastic-free periods 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z A better yardstick for judging fitness might therefore be the variance in the numbers of offspring produced. The Elusive Calculus of Insect Altruism 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z "The most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat people," Bush told her, not just family and friends, "But strangers you meet along the way." Barbara Bush remembered at funeral for her grit, grace and humor 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z It is not a viable business when judged by any sensible yardstick, because it is unable to make enough profits to generate a remotely adequate return. Should one of the world’s largest banks be wound down? 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But whatever the reasons, he said, the findings may undercut those who argue the U.S. should look to educational achievement as a yardstick when trying to select future legal immigrants. Immigrants avoid workforce, turn to welfare despite better education 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Consider one of Mr. Trump’s preferred yardsticks: cable news coverage. No One’s Talking About the New Tax Law 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Fairly or not, how France and its eye-wateringly expensive trio fare at the June-July tournament will serve as a yardstick for the logic or lunacy of football’s transfer market. Column: A half-billion dollar problem for France’s Deschamps 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Those numbers are considered a rough yardstick for the overall flow of illegal traffic, so increases in the number of people caught signals an increase in overall illegal immigration. Illegal immigration up 200 percent in March along U.S.-Mexico border 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z And how it negotiates those two irreconcilable facts may be a yardstick that future generations will come to measure it by. AggregateIQ: the obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddle 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Sorry, sir, military service is not, nor has ever been, the sole yardstick for bravery. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Philip Mangano, former homelessness czar for President George W. Bush and president of the American Round Table to Abolish Homelessness, last year called Garcetti's two yardsticks for ending veterans homelessness a "well-intentioned misjudgment." Garcetti says L.A. can end street homelessness in a decade 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It is the yardstick by which many veterans measure the rest of their lives. Do our youth really understand their country’s military? 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Résumés are not the yardsticks by which to measure a life. Opinion | Togo West left an indelible mark on American history 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The trade balance is Mr. Trump’s preferred yardstick for measuring... Surplus or Deficit? Trump Quarrels With Canada Over Trade Numbers 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The keys were struck from afar by long objects such as a yardstick, umbrella, fishing rod, rake, squeegee and a broom. At the Broad, exploring Jasper John's connection to music (with an assist from John Cage) 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The Trump administration has focused on trade deficits as the main yardstick for bilateral economic relations and threatened to impose tariffs if countries don’t take steps to balance trade with Washington. U.S. Trading Partners Seek Guidance on How to Avoid Tariffs 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z And that, by any yardstick, is a hell of a good investment. Trump doesn't want you knowing the benefits of regulations far outweigh the costs 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z If one needs a yardstick to measure the impact of wartime service on our service members, this would be a good start. ‘Eat the Apple’: a Marine’s jarring eyes-on-the-ground view of war 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z It suggested more yardsticks of progress are needed. Pentagon watchdog raises doubts about Afghan war progress 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z For Takehisa Kosugi's "Distance for Piano," the keys were struck from afar by long objects such as a yardstick, umbrella, fishing rod, rake, squeegee and a broom just like the kind Johns liked to paint. At the Broad, exploring Jasper John's connection to music (with an assist from John Cage) 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Messina said there were other, more important yardsticks at this point to determine a candidate's viability. Analysis | The Daily 202: Freewheeling immigration debate in Senate will test power of conservative outside groups 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The ability to find sources of funding outside the federal government will be the most important yardstick, accounting for 70 percent of the formula for choosing infrastructure projects. Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Puts Burden on State and Private Money 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The most widely trusted yardstick of American students’ learning is the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Opinion | Critics say nothing in education is working. That’s wrong. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z In the general store industry, the yardstick for success is smaller than other enterprises, said Gundersen. General store changes owners for first time in 30 years 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z If the local cost of a Big Mac converted into dollars is above $5.28, the average price in four American cities, a currency is dear; if it is below that yardstick, it is cheap. Our Big Mac index shows fundamentals now matter more in currency markets 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In December the government published its first annual “green index”, ranking all 31 provincial-level governments by six yardsticks, including green growth, the efficient use of natural resources and environmental management. In China, gauging public opinion is hard 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The drying mud on the sides of an abandoned black Range Rover offered a yardstick of progress in the freeway. Buried in mud, Montecito faces a daunting cleanup with no end in sight 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z When I was sick, my mother’s friend gave me a yardstick that’s inscribed, “Yard by yard, life is hard, inch by inch it’s a cinch.” Waging the Cancer War, Surrounded by Signs of Life 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Or here’s a yardstick: If your iPhone can’t last from morning coffee to happy hour on a single charge, it’s time. Review | Run, don’t walk, to replace your iPhone battery for $29 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Or here’s a yardstick: If your iPhone can’t last from morning coffee to happy hour on a single charge, it’s time. Run, don’t walk, to replace your iPhone battery for $29 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Fatter shareholder returns should be the yardstick for progress, he says. South Korea’s antitrust tsar has a good shot at taming the chaebol 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z They have the quad as an easily understood yardstick of success, like track’s four-minute mile or a 300-yard drive in golf. Nathan Chen Has Taken the Quad to a New Level. Is It Good for Figure Skating? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He’s still not bigger than Jack Nicklaus when it comes to golf’s ultimate yardstick, most majors won. Column: Woods’ back among top questions in new year in golf 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Yet the stock market is a highly dubious yardstick of the overall economy. Donald Trump and the rising stock market 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But officials made their best guess and brought the yardsticks out to measure. Why Doesn’t the N.F.L. Use Tracking Technology for First-Down Calls? 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The Navigation Center’s performance will be an important yardstick as the city plans to invest $4.4 million in enhanced shelter beds next year. Seattle Navigation Center gets people out of tents, but getting them into housing is tougher 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The government has yardsticks to measure such gains. AP FACT CHECK: Trump denies knowing women he met 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z This lovely, meditative, epistemologically plausible comedy of canine consciousness was quickly canceled, but that is not a yardstick by which we care to measure television. 'Twin Peaks,' 'Legion,' 'Danger and Eggs' and 'One Day at a Time' among the best in TV in 2017 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z "You cannot do rude jokes, my yardstick for writing gags is Laurel and Hardy or Dad's Army who made adults and children laugh," he said. Barrowman panto 'too smutty for kids' 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Even then it was too close to call with the naked eye, so a referee, Gene Steratore, used a folded piece of paper to see if it could slip between the ball and the yardstick. Why Doesn’t the N.F.L. Use Tracking Technology for First-Down Calls? 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The United States wanted an SCC to use as a budgetary yardstick to compare against the cost of programmes designed to cut emissions. The real cost of energy There's no yardstick by which to assess how significant the impacts of rocket exhaust may be, he added. How Much Air Pollution Comes from Rockets? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Outcome measures are the yardsticks by which patient improvement is measured. Is the FDA Withholding Data about a Controversial Drug to Protect Its Manufacturer? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Beyond the “you know it when you see it” yardstick, genius is a difficult thing to measure. Can Tiger Woods reawaken his golf genius ... or is it even still there? - Golf Digest 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Though some Raiders said they thought there was space between the paper and the yardstick, Steratore denied that and said the paper was used to back up his decision. Why Doesn’t the N.F.L. Use Tracking Technology for First-Down Calls? 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z With that lower price as a yardstick, fewer projects to cut emissions will pass muster — which is the point of the regulation. The real cost of energy But such rankings, important yardsticks in the study of global development and inequality, often rely on incomplete public data. How Business Titans, Pop Stars and Royals Hide Their Wealth 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z However, it's crucial to choose those yardsticks ahead of time and publish the results from all of them; otherwise it's possible to game the system by "outcome switching." Is the FDA Withholding Data about a Controversial Drug to Protect Its Manufacturer? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z A key target will be a particular kind of supernova, known as type 1a, that is an important celestial yardstick because it is thought to always explode with the same luminosity. New California telescope aims to catch quickly moving celestial events 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Hotel reservation rates, the country’s primary yardstick for measuring tourism, are up at least 10 percent this year, he said. How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google Street View 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Steve Ellis, vice president at Taxpayers for Common Sense, said if a lower inflation yardstick is right for one part of the federal fiscal picture, it should be used for all parts. Tax bill’s chained CPI sneaks in rate hikes 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Four Formula One world championships, by any yardstick, is a remarkable achievement. Lewis Hamilton’s triumph over another four-timer puts him among F1 greats | Giles Richards 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Then again, what are your yardsticks for a think tank like this: Sarcasm? I'm visiting Santa Monica, that city by the bay 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z With the ZTF expecting to find thousands of type 1as per year, astronomers hope to put those doubts to rest and improve the accuracy of this yardstick. New California telescope aims to catch quickly moving celestial events 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z They point to high rates of education, workforce engagement, homeownership and other yardsticks of economic progress. Illegal immigrants get 2 million work permits in 2017 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z If that belief spreads to the stock market, fund managers and investment strategists warn, it could disrupt a long bull run that has left stocks expensive by historical yardsticks and more susceptible to a decline. The Stock Market Charges Ahead, Despite the World’s Storms 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The plaintiffs in the Wisconsin case prevailed in Federal District Court last year in part by offering a new data-driven yardstick for partisanship, the efficiency gap. How a Wisconsin Case Before Justices Could Reshape Redistricting 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The town didn’t look poor by any conventional yardsticks of poverty. Raids in New Jersey town target ultra-Orthodox Jews accused of welfare fraud. 'What is going on here?' 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z This represents remarkable progress: in 1990 about 35% of all people were thought to be extremely poor by the same yardstick. Great strides have been made against disease and poverty 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But whatever they release will now be compared to the president’s yardstick. Donald Trump says tax overhaul won’t force rich to pay more 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Some states are also using chronic absenteeism as a yardstick for measuring school quality. When Is it O.K. to Play Hooky With Your Children? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Personal behavior and decision-making can be important yardsticks for some voters, of course. Recent Missouri editorials 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Apprehensions of illegal immigrants on the border — a rough yardstick for the overall illegal flow — are down dramatically across the Southwest, while deportations from the interior of the U.S. are up 32 percent. Donald Trump visits Arizona in push for wall funding, more border agents 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump himself said his administration’s yardstick for progress in Afghanistan going forward won’t reflect that of previous U.S. administrations. Donald Trump eyes Taliban talks, puts Pakistan on notice in Afghan war plan 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Prosecutors outline accusations that McLean also hit students and whipped them with a yardstick. Leader of Georgia private school faces child cruelty charges 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Such indices are also a yardstick for the performance of many “active” funds, ie, those with discretion over what sort of bonds to buy and how much of them to hold. Chasing higher yields, investors pile into risky countries 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z That number is considered a rough yardstick for the overall flow, meaning a drop in the number of people caught signals a drop in the overall flow of illegal border crossings, officials say. Donald Trump’s illegal immigration numbers show major changes 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The index is a yardstick; the higher the number, the worse things are. Is the air as unhealthy as it looks? 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s a yardstick the government uses to measure trends. Average Medicare drug premium expected to dip next year 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Industrial results are the crucial yardstick for G.E. now as its finance unit is pared back. G.E. Results Show Next Chief’s Challenges at Revamped Company 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z On this front, the criminal code shouldn’t be the only yardstick. Perspective | Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting may have been legal. But that’s a low bar. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z He was, by any yardstick, the most unqualified presidential nominee in modern history. Opinion | Americans put Trump in the Oval Office. What does that say about the country? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The number of people apprehended by the Border Patrol — a rough yardstick for the overall flow — is down more than 50 percent compared with this time last year. Republicans set up border wall fight in House with homeland security bill 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Too bad you left your yardstick at home. Can I park here? Advice on finding legitimate on-street spots in Seattle 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z With low unemployment in Massachusetts, and an economy that is growing by most yardsticks, the poor return in tax revenue is frustrating. Editorials from around New England 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Few subjects animate tennis aficionados quite like the "greatest of all time" debate, but there is a consensus that Rod Laver's 1969 calendar year grand slam remains a yardstick for the modern game. Back from exile, Laver led Wimbledon into brave new world 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z “When foreign policy becomes a commodity, then purchasing military equipment becomes your yardstick for measuring who is a terrorist or who isn’t a terrorist,” he said. Key senator says Congress to stop arms sales to Gulf until Qatar crisis is solved 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z By another yardstick, he’s logged 27,000 miles in a cargo van that is his home away from home as well as his cross-country ride. Man stops at Fort Vancouver on trip to all national parks 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The measure largely uses people's incomes as the yardstick for helping those without workplace coverage to buy private insurance. Mitch McConnell Seeks Votes to Help Pass Senate Health Care Bill 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The right yardstick is not how Mr Koepka fared compared to par, which is a somewhat arbitrary figure, but rather how he did relative to his competitors. Will the US Open be remembered for Brooks Koepka or Erin Hills? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z No more than 40 percent of students are proficient at math or reading at any level tested by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, one nationwide yardstick. Correction: Education Accountability-Mississippi story 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z During the New Deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported private utilities but argued for public power as a yardstick by which to measure their rates. Opinion | There’s a history of private capital ignoring critical infrastructure needs 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z By Wall Street’s most basic yardstick — Yahoo’s stock price — Ms. Mayer earned every penny she got. Dissecting Marissa Mayer’s $900,000-a-Week Yahoo Paycheck 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z But as audiences discover during that examination, humans are using the wrong yardstick. 'Westworld,' 'Black Mirror' and other tech-driven shows delve into what it means to be human 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Walls at check-in are paneled in wooden yardsticks. You’re going where? Ann Arbor. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z She said the findings were cause for optimism, adding that laws were one yardstick for tracking action on global warming, alongside investment in renewable energy or backing the 2015 climate agreement, ratified by 144 nations. Climate change laws exceed 1,200 worldwide, finds LSE study 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z He referred to Leitkultur as a vital “yardstick for the coexistence” of Germans and immigrants. Shake hands and read Goethe: attempt to define German values draws ire 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z He has pointed to the buoyant performance of the stock market as one of the most tangible yardsticks of his performance as president. A Marine Le Pen Victory Wouldn’t Necessarily Be a Win for Trump 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z As he maneuvered to show progress, however, Trump also took to Twitter on Friday to question the yardstick by which he is being measured. Trump says 100-day marker is ‘ridiculous.’ But he’s scrambling to show progress by then on taxes, health care. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The application process is also deemed a good yardstick of the health of the American high-end economy. Trump administration warns firms to hire Americans over foreigners 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Atlanta United, another team put together in the space of just a few weeks and months, were supposed to provide a more suitable yardstick. Cold open: Minnesota United brutally exposed as ill-equipped for the task 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The maps provided not a standard candle, but a standard yardstick: a pattern of hotter and colder spots in the primordial soup created by sound waves rippling through the newborn universe. A recharged debate over the speed of the expansion of the universe could lead to new physics 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z |
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