Here, statistics are used to encourage, or even politically embarrass, protagonists into striving to reach or surpass a benchmark.
Tetlock and his wife, the decision scientist Barbara Mellers, helped form a Penn/Berkeley team, which bested the competition and surpassed the benchmarks by 60 percent in Year 1.
His worry is that if he exceeds 50 workers or surpasses certain benchmarks for total investment, he will become subject to extensive labor legislation.
The company cited a competing Web site performance index, from Gomez Inc., showing that Nordstrom surpassed industry benchmarks for speed and transaction success.
With seven golds in the velodrome at London 2012, British champions such as Laura Trott and Jason Kenny will ride with targets on their backs, as the Australian team pulls out all stops to surpass the benchmark.
In a barometer of support for the fledgling new government, tax collections rose year after year, eventually surpassing some benchmarks in much richer, more established democracies, including the United States.
The host nation, China, handily surpassed its benchmarks.
The ATS, General Motors' attempt to replicate, if not surpass, the benchmarked BMW 3 Series, claimed top honours over the Ford Fusion and Honda Accord sedans.
As investors, we all have different goals beyond these core objectives, but capital appreciation, income generation and principal preservation are the best ways we can connect with our customers around outcome objectives and surpass the benchmark.
Foreign equities produced returns of 13.8%, surpassing the benchmark by 8.0% annually.
