A cap — any decent cap — remains the best benchmark of success.
Despite my abandoning these early dreams, the book continued to provide my benchmark for properly decent human beings: I'm not sure they come much better than Atticus Finch*.
Earlier this year, for example, two groups of researchers broke the 0.3-nm-resolution benchmark, enough to get a decent view of the side arms of two proteins' individual amino acids.
About two in five black adolescents met the benchmark of graduating from high school with a decent grade point average, no children and no criminal record by the age of 19.
If you lack discipline, hire a decent money manager with a good record of matching or surpassing their benchmark over long periods.
The S&P 500, a decent proxy for the total value of the U.S. stock market, is the benchmark most widely used for index investing and performance measurement.
Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm is better than the five conventional algorithms, that is, three-step search (TSS), new three-step search (N3SS), four three-step search (4SS), block-based gradient decent search (BBGDS), and diamond search (DS), in terms of speed or picture quality for eight benchmark sequences.
This was a fine pitch for one-day cricket, with decent pace and good bounce, the sort on which a run-a-ball ought to be the benchmark.
And advisory service Moneyfacts warned that with the Bank of England's benchmark interest rate still at 0.5%, savers were finding it difficult to get a decent return on their money.
An organisation dedicated to "the stabilisation of oil markets" and "a steady income to producers" has done a decent job of late.Benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude has mainly traded at between $70 and $80 per barrel since mid-2009.
