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By Jon Michaud June 22 , 2012This week marks the two hundredth anniversary of the commencement of the War of 1812, a benchmark that has been only halfheartedly acknowledged across the country.

The $3 billion, along with $1 billion from New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund, will provide half the money for the project, a benchmark that has to be reached to obtain federal matching funds.

On average, funds in two of the more popular stock fund categories are actually beating the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the benchmark that has been trouncing active fund managers for years.

For better or for worse, it's the benchmark that has become virtually synonymous with "international" investing.

The benchmark that has been selected for comparison purpose is reviewed extensively.

I don't want a manager to get credit for showing a "good" performance if he's merely tracking his benchmark, or in a bear market, to be blamed for a "bad" performance if it's really his benchmark that has been lagging.

"What's important is that we're talking about a global standard, a global benchmark that hadn't really existed before," said Ted McNamara, the State Department official coordinating action on the resolution.

An excellent tool for monitoring progress in young children is the Clinical Red Flag Procedure [ 50], which is a matrix of auditory benchmarks that has been established for identifying children who are progressing at a slower-than-expected rate.

But Mr. Bernabè, 63, gets animated when he talks about the financial benchmarks that have charted the company's recovery.

AbZ said funding must go to programs with clear benchmarks that have strong financial and policy oversight.

If so, it would be the latest in a long list of financial benchmarks that have been rigged in ways that have bolstered bankers' bonuses.