Benchmark Quotations

My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

The perception here is that traffic on the Internet was weak and, definitely, Yahoo!'s numbers are going to be used as a proxy or benchmark for the other players in the space.

Years from now, new benchmark revisions will come along and change the whole picture again -- which begs the question of how important these monthly payroll changes are. I think it's irresponsible to make too much of these reports.

We are honored to receive this award from General Motors. It is especially gratifying as Motion Industries serves to set the benchmark for quality.

The creation of large liquid benchmarks will improve the trading turnover in the secondary market as this is expected to, among others, reduce the bid-offer spreads on bond prices. Participants will be able to get in or out of the benchmark issues more easily, making trading in Philippine bonds comparable to those in other emerging markets. This will be highly attractive to foreign investors in the market and bring additional business opportunities to the local financial community. This effort will complement earlier initiatives in capital market development, including the creation of the Fixed Income Exchange.

The process of developing this benchmark ensures that it is a realistic testing tool for users, the ISV and hardware vendors. The automotive industry generously donated an actual design model, UGS contributed the testing framework based on characteristic use of NX 3, and we integrated it with the proven SPEC methodology that helps ensure consistent results.

Like any company, we want to make sure our associates, customers and local communities feel good about us. This research provided a benchmark to help us understand what we are doing well and where we need to improve.

Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a breather after the benchmark Nikkei index added more than 200 points yesterday.

Moving forward, the objective of the EEMBC automotive and industrial subcommittee is to develop a powerful benchmark suite that can specify and measure performance and energy between all the components in these complex systems, and help each partner improve its products to push the limits of automotive systems. Patrick's unique combination of education and experience has perfectly positioned him to lead this subcommittee as we strive to develop a benchmark recognized by automotive vendors worldwide for its efficacy in measuring the performance of every component in automotive applications including microcontroller cores, buses, peripherals, memory, compilers, profilers, operating systems, SW drivers, and auto-code generators.

Maybe it's not as big a benchmark as it used to be a few years ago but it's nice and I think there's more to come.

I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover within a range of 100 points.

Building upon the online success of the 'Rainbow Six' franchise and harnessing the power of the next-generation experience, 'Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas' will be the benchmark against which all next-generation games will be measured.

Francis has set us another very high benchmark - the chances of breaking it are very slim but if we don't try, we won't know.

From bumper-to-bumper, under the hood and from the inside out the new Tundra is a true American truck that will set a new benchmark in the full-size truck segment. It will be aimed at the 'True Trucker,' the true opinion leaders among full-size owners. True Truckers are highly credible because they use, punish, and demand the most out of the pickups they buy.

For those who monitor market charts, a pull-back to around 6,400-6,500 points, or the 72-day moving average for the benchmark index, seems increasingly possible.

Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in '48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad, has set a pattern. This will be the case, even if the rhetoric of lifetime jobs guarantees outstrip the language.

We are extremely proud to receive the Quality Circle Award this year, and particularly proud to be the only manufacturer to receive this award each year for the past decade. We consider the DSI survey to be a critical measurement tool for the quality of our products, our sales and service programs and our manufacturing processes. The survey provides us with an important annual benchmark that shows how our dealer partners perceive the quality of Winnebago Industries products and services.

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

We looked for durability and consistency. In today's game, 200 innings is the benchmark that defines consistency and durability. The inherent value is that it takes you directly from the starters to the back end of your bullpen. It allows you to bypass the more unpredictable parts of the pitching staff.

I wouldn't be surprised, once the benchmark number comes in, that we're going to be much closer to 2 percent than the current growth of 1.3 percent.

I think this year was a benchmark in negotiations between the state and tribes. Everything went smoothly compared to past history.

I think that it's still progressing. I was pleased with the players in the autumn. In the three games we set a benchmark and it's important that we build on that. The importance is the whole team development. It's about playing with speed of ball and understanding. If we can get quick ball then the midfield combinations will have more time to work and expose the space that we're trying to attack. I was pretty pleased with the way the midfield went.

I will be a good benchmark for us. I have shuffled the deck and this game should give us a good idea of where we are,

I think the real test will come midseason when the league takes a break for the Olympics. That will be an important benchmark to see where the league is and to see whether it's taken the right steps in marketing, whether it's taken the right steps on the ice, and whether it was right to sit out an entire season to get a new economic model.

Jeep Grand Cherokee sets the benchmark with its on-road refinement, off-road mastery and overall performance in key areas of customer satisfaction. Now with the understated luxury of the new range-topping Overland model, Jeep Grand Cherokee becomes the ultimate expression of Jeep ?Modern? and an even more compelling package for customers in Europe and other international markets.

Our hope is that this will be a benchmark ... for a lot more people to not only have fun but to reap the benefits that we believe might be there,

Our task is trying to beat a benchmark. In order to do that, we have to deviate from a benchmark in some way. But you also have to be mindful of the extent of risk that you are taking.

Our tariff system would look to benchmark the cost of services, so that cost differences would be apparent between boards and so that it could be used in cross-border flows of patients. This will encourage boards to deliver services more efficiently, freeing up more funds for front-line healthcare.

Our research-based approach distinguishes the Learning Leaders Program from other industry recognition programs. The benchmark criteria that will be used to evaluate submissions is based on years of quantitative and qualitative research and endorsed by our panel of senior industry advisors. Our research database, by far the largest and most comprehensive source of information related to enterprise learning, gives us the ability to rigorously assess organizations against peer performance in more than 21 different dimensions.

Sustainable development is a benchmark of our policies. We want to have sustainable communities that thrive. We have power and we have water, and we have all those things that are an artifact of our mining operation.

Some investors took profits in select blue chips, driving the benchmark index into negative territory. Trading was confined to a narrow range ... ahead of the long Christmas holiday.

Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry and as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Don't look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer.

Judges selected Intermec as the winner in this category based on its ability to deliver cutting-edge innovative value to customers while working closely with IBM to both benchmark and extend those solutions and technologies. Intermec is combining technology expertise with business insight to help its clients innovate on important business issues and realize real efficiencies.

The all-new 2007 Dodge Caliber SRT4 achieves the SRT mission of offering benchmark performance for the best price. With 300 horsepower under the hood, the Dodge Caliber SRT4 will dominate the sport-compact market.

We intend to be the benchmark of collegiate football polls.

We continue to see Exxon Mobil as the benchmark for operational performance in the sector. On ROCE (return on capital employed), Exxon Mobil continues to lead the industry and we see this leadership sustained through our forecast period through 2009.

We were able to come to an agreement with Goldman Sachs on the pre-IPO market. We feel that 9 billion euro is a fair value, not overly exciting, and it's an objective value that we can put before shareholders and give them a benchmark to look at our business.

We'll use this rating as a benchmark to help us strive for higher service marks in the future. We're proud of this certification, but we'll do even better.

We need to take steps like expanding the network for assessment to reach out to smaller cities and fixing a benchmark for assessment of skilled workers for the IT sector so that India's IT sector can keep growing in leaps and bounds.

The problem is, unless you are benchmarking your own work, it is hard to decide what value the benchmark has. Usually it is just another data point and it allows you to compare two different systems.

Those do not appear to be cherry-picked numbers of some particular benchmark on a blue moon with a tailwind blowing.

There are a whole bunch of teams right now that think they have an opportunity. Everybody looks at us and says, 'If they did it, we can do it.' The measure of a great coach, player and organization is the test of time. Being recognized as good isn't a one-time thing, so you have to hang around to earn that. That's what Detroit and New Jersey have done by each winning three Cups in a 10-year span. If you want to be a benchmark team, you have to do it again.

This study gives us the ability to benchmark with other hospitals in the area. This is a team effort, from the ER to the caregivers on the floor.

The recommendation is to go for commodities such as soy and cotton, which you can benchmark against global prices.

There has just been a monumental benchmark achieved, ... Meet the Press.

This year's study reflects the financial distress hospitals have encountered in the wake of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Despite the difficulties facing them, the 100 top benchmark hospitals have maintained profitability and top clinical performance.

This will be the sovereign benchmark for Singapore. This is a high-grade issue and there will be solid demand for the bonds.

We always use the benchmark from previous meets as a challenge to us, so with the results this week it certainly looks that way.

We've got three to five people who are exceptional (on the training track). Nathan is alongside people like Brett Burton, Simon Goodwin and Matthew Bode, and Ben Hart. They sort of set the benchmark for Adelaide in conditioning.

We are excited about the rapid success of what started as a small real estate investment firm. Our goal is to continue growing throughout the Southeast and we truly feel that we have reached a benchmark in our industry now that we have surpassed 9 million square feet and nearly $1 billion in assets.

You can look at different trends to explain it, a .355 on-base percentage being the benchmark for a successful playoff team,

(This) week is all about the Fed. But we all know they are trying to bring back the benchmark rate to neutrality. They still have a couple more rate increases to go.

This weekend is a great benchmark for us. We like seeing what's on the other side of the state, and it gives us two weeks to get our act together for the postseason.

To me, it's more significant that he's in the lower rankings of performance for large blend funds, ... It's more fair to benchmark a fund to that fund's category, not an index.

We think the benchmark can provide an easy-to-use and visible spot market index for your current contract needs.

We could win three World Series, with me it's never going to be over. My benchmark is so high, whatever I do it's never going to be enough and I understand that. Maybe when I retire is when all the critics and all that stuff is going to end.

Brazil's benchmark rate will keep on falling until it gets down to a more reasonable single digit rate. The tax cut, along with lower inflation, will certainly help.

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

Did it feel good? Absolutely. They are the defender, the benchmark and it's a great reward for our team.

Flu seasons change widely in severity. We don't know if this was a severe season or not. This (study) is really a benchmark for future seasons.

There's no question we can bring some expertise, ... I'm sure they have some as well. But we're recognized as the benchmark in the industry on the automotive side.

These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

Tennis Australia wishes to pay tribute to Paul for his efforts over the past 12 years which have established the Australian Open as one of the world's marquee sporting events. His creativity and energy helped elevate the Australian Open to be on a par with the other three Grand Slams and set a benchmark for major sporting events in Australia and around the world. He leaves the Australian Open in a very healthy state after another hugely successful tournament.

Saracens are widely tipped for a top-four spot this season, and we always welcome the opportunity to benchmark ourselves against quality opposition -especially at Sixways.

Project City-Center confirms a cultural and lifestyle revival of city living, reaffirms the growing sophistication and maturity of Las Vegas and sets a benchmark for new growth and exciting new experiences as the city moves into its next 100 years.

On top of declines in the US overnight, losses on UMC further weighed on the benchmark index.

Suburban is the industry benchmark when it comes to capability and the 2007 model affirms the reputation established in 1935, when the first Suburban was introduced.

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

The US treasuries are declining in price but our comparative benchmark is not moving so the spread is declining.

The White House is drawing attention to this election, betting that it will be successful and it can point to this as another benchmark in the transition to fuller Iraqi sovereignty.

This benchmark was designed with the input of a dozen or so partners.

This appeal hearing marks a small but important benchmark by which Brazil's criminal justice system will be measured in its determination to ensure equal and universal access to justice and in its desire to promote and protect the human rights of all Brazilians.

A lot of selling came in around 9 o'clock because Freddie Mac priced a large 10-year note, their benchmark security. Right at the pricing of that note, the Treasury market went down and it wasn't able to recover.

This move no doubt responds to a relative lack of commercially available credit models in the market, and the strong need for more advances in this space. Banks need proven credit models backed by experience and strong data sets, both to use as primary sources of default prediction and to benchmark their own internally-developed models against. This is now a key strategic advantage, and banks that do not use state of the art credit models will find themselves at a distinct disadvantage, both from a pricing and origination perspective, and a portfolio profitability perspective.

There seems to be a new benchmark in terms of what we call a blockbuster, ... This year, by the end of the year, we'll wind up with about 17 films over $100 million. But the key to this year's success is that we have five films that have gone beyond $200 million. That's never happened before.

Abercrombie met or was very close to meeting its sales force benchmark for Asians.

It was in a market that was growing but has declined, at least as far as housing starts. What it all comes down to is housing starts. Our benchmark is 3,000 starts annually in a market. There were not very many in these areas and 95 percent of our customers are builders. It is not a people issue, it is a market issue.

It's a great honor to be selected by my peers for such an award. Coach Harris was an icon in our sport and set a high benchmark for everyone to aspire.

It's not his finest hour. The buck stops right there with him. The president did not meet a benchmark that he himself set for crisis leadership.

Follow-through interest in select blue chips and China-related stocks drove the benchmark index up. Funds kept chasing these stocks after the market broke through the 16,000 points level.

It's the benchmark we go by. It's the path forward.

It means a lot because the benchmark is the '85 Bears and their defense, and if we come anywhere close to where they were at least people can say we had a good defense that year.

Consumers are numb to these high prices. Some of this is what the market will bear. Part of the problem with higher prices is we set a new benchmark in our mind and $3 is the new record.

The objective of the operation seems to be to create a few large-sized benchmark bonds and over time buy back the smaller issues.

That kind of decline is a perfect fit with what we've seen in the household survey's measure of employment, ... if not in February, then in future benchmark revisions.

The Black Book Commercial Index provides greater accuracy, coverage and accessibility than current industry standards and serves as a common yardstick for measuring remarketing performance across all channels. Working with Black Book gives us the ability to provide our customers with the most complete and accurate benchmark enabling them to validate our industry best performance in the marketplace.

The benchmark was two years ago when we made it 10 in a row, which beat Henry Cecil's record of nine consecutive tons, and I am pleased we have done it again.

It was obviously a benchmark for our program in terms of taking the next step, especially winning a game against a team like Minnesota, which just multiplies it. We had a tough first period against North Dakota, but we played better after that. To have a good showing like that out there is obviously a great thing for our future.

The U.S. market's strength helped lift the main board early in the session, but selling pressure grew as the benchmark index approached the 6,600 level.

They have to deal with all contracts, leases, ordinances, lawsuits. There's an enormous amount of paperwork involved. The need has been there for some time. We're well beneath the benchmark nationally for having just two attorneys on counsel.

Not just a benchmark in my career, but a benchmark in my life,

Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.

The IPE's Brent Crude futures contract is a global benchmark for pricing of the world's oil. We are delighted to enter into this co-operative venture with NCDEX, which we believe will reinforce the significance of the Brent Crude futures contract.

The Federal Reserve is one of the main driving forces for rates changes on checking and money market accounts. With the Federal Reserve increasing the benchmark federal funds rate a quarter-point, I anticipate checking and money market account rates to show some movement in the coming weeks.