"We're not at all satisfied," said Jim Stergios, executive director of the Pioneer Institute, a Boston nonprofit group that helped Massachusetts revise its state benchmarks in the 1990s.
But success in meeting recruiting benchmarks in the last year has led to optimism among NATO officials that the ambitious goal can be met.
The sides are discussing a marketing plan in which Rodriguez, 32, would benefit financially as he passes home run benchmarks in the coming seasons.
To this day, Gaskill's production of Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer remains one of the benchmarks in the staging of period comedy.
At the end of 2005, the company's board approved a new incentive program for O'Neal and his senior colleagues, which promised them generous rewards if the firm's return on equity exceeded certain benchmarks in the following three years.
Dokka's study, which he published in July, 2004, under the title "Rates of Vertical Displacement at Benchmarks in the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Northern Gulf Coast," showed that for decades elevations in coastal Louisiana had been systematically overstated.
The MCC is an American government agency that distributes aid to poor countries on the condition that they meet certain benchmarks in the realms of "economic freedom", "investing in people", and "ruling justly".
The remarkable levels of price stability for crude oil along the world's most important benchmarks, in the face of large disruptions in supply from some of the Middle East's key suppliers, have left many observers somewhat stunned.
The Times under Ochs-Sulzberger ownership has made mistakes over the decades, serious ones, but its principles and sense of ambition — its commitment to publish "without fear or favor" — remain benchmarks in the news business.
Many mutual funds that make their trades based on the recommendations of a proprietary computer model, known as quantitative or quant funds, have outperformed their benchmarks in the last three years.
Others -- including Ron Leibman (as Shylock), Julia Stiles (as Viola in "Twelfth Night"), F. Murray Abraham (as Lear) -- turned in interpretations that became benchmarks in the flattening and mangling of Shakespeare by the talented.
