Lacey reported that Maradona "stayed in the engine-room, checking on the gauges and the pistons and giving a less spectacular through no less valuable performance".
He pointed me to a scientific paper published in 2011 in the journal Surveys in Geophysics showing that in fact, tide gauges record that sea level has been rising at about 2.8mm per year since the early 90s, not the 1mm claimed by Carter and Harris.
According to Griffin, California's old blue oaks are as close to nature's rain gauges as we get The study compared today's drought conditions in California to those reconstructed over the past 1,200 years using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), an estimate of available soil moisture.
Maradona, whose explosions of individual skill against England and Belgium had carried him to the final of a wave of universal acclaim – give or take the odd English cry of "Cheat" – stayed in the engine-room yesterday, checking on the gauges and the pistons and giving a less spectacular through no less valuable performance.
Rain gauges in some parts of west Texas registered two inches or more.
The sector, perhaps one of the handiest gauges of global economic expectations, has seen several false dawns with the summer slump being the ugliest, but the prospect of a flurry of deal-making would be just the ticket to draw attention away from the ongoing decline in commodity prices.
It aims to ban trade in items the north might need for its weapons (such as gauges for wind tunnels), luxury goods its rulers might want for themselves (such as yachts, jewellery and racing cars) and also the foreign cash they would need to buy them.But the sanctions remain porous.
This measure, however, does not take into account variations in the quality of homes sold.Two other gauges do adjust for quality differences, mainly by dealing only with repeat home sales.
This gap helps to explain why Spain has been able to defend its market share in world trade even though it has become less competitive on gauges like relative unit-labour costs.Whether the economy rides out the euro-area crisis will depend on which Spain prevails the more competitive version or the hidebound one.
To him, membership amounts to aligning China's rail gauges to the world's, so that the train of global trade and capital can power through.Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), an investment bank, chooses a different metaphor: investing in China today, it says, is like taking a strange sort of bus tour.
The market reaction to a large terrorist attack against Israel brought an average drop of 1.2%—a response only marginally greater than if Israel killed a Palestinian politician.The stockmarket is an appealing indicator of the effectiveness of counterterrorism measures because terrorism damages the Israeli economy and the market gauges public perception of the news.
