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Mr. Grassley offered an amendment that would essentially abolish the path to legalization by tying it to border-sealing benchmarks that would be impossible to meet.

Fourth, Israel is pushing the EU-3 to define benchmarks that would signal a failure of the process, and to identify the concrete consequences of such failure.

"The population is definitely not in its most healthy condition," Dr. Williams said, "but the problem is that we don't know where it is according to what we call benchmarks" that would size up the menhaden's status more precisely.

Moreover, it said, in defining "essential health benefits," the government should try to guarantee that the average premium would not exceed benchmarks that would be set by the secretary of health and human services.

The British leader spoke of benchmarks that would be set for the Afghan leader, including a three-month deadline to "identify" additional Afghan troops to be sent for training in Helmand Province, the hottest zone of the war.

Times reporters wrote that Iraq's political leaders were failing to meet benchmarks that would show satisfactory progress to the American government, that a formerly peaceful Shiite city in southern Iraq was convulsed by violence as rival groups fought for control, and that Sunnis feared their own country's army because it is dominated by Shiites.

That's the popular-vote benchmark that would allow the Greens to get federal matching funds in 2004..

Schofield said the proposed target was not inconsistent with the Fair Work Act, because it was a "benchmark" that would still allow the commission to consider other factors.

In tandem with the rest of the city's hospitality industry, Liverpool's restaurateurs have made great strides but recently have lacked a benchmark that would help raise the standard of food and service to the next level.

Mr. Dow had the vision to create a benchmark that would project general market conditions and, therefore, help investors bewildered by fractional dollar changes.

Charles Dow had the vision to create a benchmark that would project general market conditions and therefore help investors bewildered by fractional dollar changes.