If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac take on the benchmark role, it would reinforce the perception among investors that the housing companies are so vital to the financial system that the government could never let them default.
As it became increasingly evident over the last 10 years that Deborah Voigt had the potential to be a Wagnerian soprano of historic significance, the pressure built for her to perform the benchmark role of Isolde.
Some games manufactured for the system include Psycho Fox, Golvellius, and Phantasy Star, which became a successful franchise for Sega and is considered one of the benchmark role-playing games.
This benchmark role has also influenced the expectations of downstream buyers.
Among these, in contrast to what has been assumed, established groups do not play the pre-eminent benchmarking role; rather, partially oriented, specialized and "shooting star" groups are the most common patterns.
Success in this requires not only effective, value-based management and quality assurance capability, but also funding bodies and purchasers with a social commitment to quality at low cost, and NGOs that are large enough relative to the market to play a benchmarking role.
"OTELLO" Ben Heppner ticks off another of the benchmark tenor roles, as Verdi's tragic hero.
They would also have to set benchmarks, define roles more clearly and review employee performance.
On the occasion of his undertaking Hamlet, that other benchmark Shakespearean role, in 1986, Frank Rich, then the chief theater critic of The New York Times, called him "the pride of the American theater — a homegrown actor who might yet be our Olivier (and a singing and dancing Olivier at that), a show business star who has never misplaced either his devotion to the stage or his integrity".
Taking the world by storm in 2006, Oblivion set a new benchmark for role-playing experiences for current-generation gaming.
