Even if you use a more conservative profit gauge — 10-year averaged earnings, a measure that smoothes out wild swings — you find that valuations have begun to soar.
Perry and Gingrich spoke to the group, and Laudner was there to gauge whether conservatives in Iowa are determined to avoid splintering between five or six candidates.
Nor is it easy to gauge the depth of his conservative commitments.
He has strong support among the Party's establishment and donor class, but his popularity among the current conservative rank and file is difficult to gauge.
The researchers also used two other measures to gauge the happiness of liberals and conservatives, neither of which indicated greater conservative happiness.
As for Mr. West's penchant for controversy and his conservative voting record, it is too early to gauge its impact on the race.
But more recent reports have suggested that employees examined both conservative and liberal-leaning groups in trying to gauge whether they were more engaged in political activities than the law for tax exemptions allows.
In the next few months, the denomination will gauge the reaction from its more theologically conservative members, who believe that ordaining sexually active gay people is inconsistent with the Bible.
Two new anthologies from I.S.I., both sparkling with insights and both agreeably short, offer as good a gauge as anything out there of where conservatives think they stand.
To minimize the effect of these biases, we estimated sampling error from technical replicates and used this as a benchmark to gauge the gene detection threshold and to set conservative criteria for the identification of differentially expressed genes.
