Television was not always the be-all, end-all yardstick.
All yardsticks were Stars Hollow yardsticks — one young woman gave her age by saying "I wasn't born until the fourth season".
Nike is one of 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the grandaddy of all yardsticks for the broader stock market.
His writing about the music's early history lacks the depth and texture of Mr. Sapoznik's work, and it is beset by a tendency to use contemporary pop as an all-purpose yardstick.
The theme of "a new settlement for the global age" had the typical smack of Brown pretentiousness, the relentless schmaltz about imaginary people benefiting from Labour's largesse, while ignoring the millions impoverished by 11 years of prodigality, met all the yardsticks of hypocrisy.
The other is the canonical Great American Songbook – which is not a book at all but a yardstick for old-fashioned, well crafted lyrics and melodies composed by the likes of Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart and Johnny Mercer and sung by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Ella Fitzgerald.
Around noon, all the main yardsticks of the stock market are higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 146.50 points to 8641.53 and the S&P 500 up 16.23 to 1102.16.
"It doesn't show how the presence or absence of the menopause affects Darwinian fitness," how successful an individual is in passing on his or her genes to future generations, "which is the all-important evolutionary yardstick".
Walmsley hopes that the college's culture is a yardstick by which all their activities are judged.
That is a yardstick by which all subsequent performances must still be judged - and in most cases be found wanting.
Irrespective of method used, these rules of thumb are all intended to be a yardstick for valuing informal production gains or losses.
