The bank said: We have benchmarked [Weir's] oil and gas division against 17 other industrial end markets and show that the current profitability of the business is abnormally high.
First, it will support internationally benchmarked standards and tests, an effort to reverse the tendency of states to weaken standards under NCLB.
A fall in efficiency (benchmarked against comparable wards and recent performance) earns a red or amber rating, to remind staff that they are lagging.
Every other employee seems to speak earnestly about how his job is "benchmarked to the world's best".It is this pursuit of world standards, not merely those good enough for the cosy local market, that sets Reliance apart from the flaccid family empires that still dominate Indian business.
It is when the two words are combined, and attached to a department in a consultancy, or a professor's course, or a book chapter, or a series of publications, that the eyebrows start offering a spot of leading-edge scepticism (benchmarked to best scepticism practice).The first eyebrow-waggler is the attachment of these buzzwords to just one department, or chapter, or course.
And in its strategy, the firm has benchmarked itself against some of the world's best companies.
For the first time, most states will apply rigorous, internationally benchmarked standards in math and English, bringing tougher standards to more than three-fourths of all U.S. public-school students.
They were not benchmarked, really, in the past, and that's why I came in and said: "Your benchmark should be higher.
We benchmarked everybody against outside candidates, and it was a totally open process.
The price tag on a huge range of other debt products is benchmarked to the cost of Treasuries.
Were the thrills more readily accessible, the Turbo would make a raucous alternative to the Civic Si, which is benchmarked by automakers and beloved by aftermarket tuners for its exploitable power band, poise and relative stealth.
