A team from Washington was recently in Dushanbe to assess government progress, establish new benchmarks for the next tranche of funds, and assess the impact of Roghun fundraising.
In the next three to four years, Seoul's Smart Seoul 2015 infrastructure program is set to establish new benchmarks for being connected.
But, right from the start, there were clues that the sponsor of this one — ABC News, a part of the ABC network, which is owned by Disney — might establish new benchmarks of degradation.
The new JVC projectors establish new benchmarks in performance and value, breaking new ground in color accuracy, black levels, ease of use and flexible adjustment.
Halperin has been in the forefront of this business for much longer, establishing new benchmarks for coin grading, sewing up the rights to auctions at leading shows, pioneering sales over the Internet and making headlines unloading the collections of celebrities (like Nicolas Cage's comic books).
"We believe that the project will establish new world benchmarks for megawatt scale off-grid renewables," Barker says.
Lewis broke the world record in 9.86sec, shaving 0.04 off the benchmark set by Burrell two months earlier and the men in second and third also established new personal bests.
Instead, he established new goals.
"The Sopranos," which arrived on HBO in 1999, established a new benchmark, verisimilitude; in the fifth episode, we saw the Mob boss Tony Soprano strangling an informant.
In 1998, Craig Stoll and his soon-to-be wife, Annie, opened Delfina, whose Tuscan-influenced dishes established a new benchmark for Italian food in San Francisco, and a new center of gravity for the cuisine, in the city's Mission district.
