Although Mr. Gross's Total Return fund did well last year compared with its benchmark, it did not do as well as some competitors.
While Google's Chrome team is clearly aware of it and recently added it to its Octane benchmark, it seems unlikely that Chrome will support it natively anytime soon.
On another benchmark, it aims to raise its current 13% of students from the bottom social classes to "a range between 13% and 14%" in the next four years.
Barse responded that Third Avenue, since its inception, has been able to beat the benchmark it uses.
So while the Sorento isn't a benchmark, it certainly is a warning shot.
"But marriage equality is a benchmark, it is not a finish line".
Judged against that benchmark, it is equally clear that our leader fought a lacklustre and half-hearted campaign.
For West Texas intermediate crude, the North American benchmark, it cut the forecast to $40 a barrel from $48.
On a typical cold winter day, she said, the agency receives about 1,600 calls, a benchmark it seemed likely to surpass yesterday.
"People will want to try their codes on this machine and benchmark it against the other machines we have," he said.
The actual numbers have come in just slightly ahead of the 150,000-job benchmark, it turns out, suggesting that Mr. Obama might be favored to win re-election, but is not a lock to do so.
