Their result, says one economist, was to set back democratic prospects for years.How it happenedTo gauge just what has changed in China in the 1990s, it is worth recalling the state of the country on the eve of the protests.
Chelating agents have been used to treat lead-exposed children since the 1950s, but the metric for gauging therapeutic efficacy has changed over time.
The group interviewed hundreds of women about their breast cancer prevention practices before they were exposed to the program, and plans to interview them again afterward, to gauge whether their behavior has changed.
We'd like to gauge how the picture has changed over the last year, and also look ahead to next year's general election, and what policies voters want the next government to prioritise.
Only those with a piano tuner's ear can gauge how much it has changed since maverick editor Rod Liddle left and the innovative Kevin Marsh took over, but it says much for the programme's overall reputation that, despite the Andrew Gilligan debacle and the likelihood of cosmic reverberations when the Hutton report comes out, it is still essential listening.
For instance, for the Electronic Arts football video game Madden '04, GameSpot Trax gauges how consumer awareness has changed since its release in early August by tracking, among other things, the number of players who have visited the Madden '04 section of the GameSpot Web site, in contrast to the number who have visited the GameSpot Web pages of competing game titles.
AS A gauge of how much the world has changed now that there is a new American administration, try picturing George Bush in Pyongyang.
There is a parlour game you can play to gauge how dramatically rock and pop music has changed in the course of a decade.
The completed gauge should make clear to the viewer how the focus area has changed over the three years.
It's not possible to gauge this in Western or modernized cultures, where the level of violence has changed and the weapons used do not offer left-handers an advantage.
Where once mass marketers saw intuitive sense in getting in front of a mass audience which the Super Bowl provides like no other television event high costs and limited metrics to gauge effectiveness have changed the thinking in some quarters.
