The rankings, while a solid early-season gauge, fail to account for the number of games remaining for top teams.
The notion that this transformation must be a gauge transformation fails, however.
Unlike the first test program, the GF rupture was not captured well for many specimens of the second test program because of the strain gauge or epoxy failure prior to GF rupture, and the disruption of testing once the strain gauge or epoxy failed.
There were problems, to be sure: in Australia, a bus-ticket machine stamped the wrong date, while in Britain a tide gauge in Portsmouth Harbor failed.
Even a slightly higher-than-expected increase in the index of leading indicators, a crucial gauge of economic activity, failed to inspire investors.
King's local attempts to achieve broad-gauge progress for blacks failed repeatedly in Northern cities like Chicago and Cleveland; in Southern towns like Albany, Georgia, and St. Augustine, Florida; and even, arguably, in the movement's sacred sites, like Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma.
The newspaper Shanghai Daily reported in early June that an official in the drought relief and flood control bureau said that the dam's planners had failed to gauge its impact properly.
Even the worst-case economic scenario failed to gauge the impact of deflation, for example, which would cause defaults to soar, since it would reduce firms' and households' income relative to their debts.
In the days before the war with Iraq, the Army and the Defense Department failed to gauge the full strength and offensive strategy of the Iraqi paramilitary forces responsible for the brunt of the attacks on American soldiers and marines, high-ranking Army officers said today.
