The extent of the fighting is impossible to gauge, since only the Sudanese air force overflies the region.
The Labor Department said its four-week moving average, a more reliable gauge since it irons out week-to-week fluctuations, had risen slightly, to 404,500.
Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical, said in an interview that he was not overly concerned that Mr. Jordan's departure would hurt ticket sales, and noted that it would be hard to gauge since most Broadway shows have a seasonal dip at the box office in September and October.
The backward-looking reading is a closely watched gauge since many analysts have predicted that a true economic recovery must begin with a stabilization in home prices.
This event recorded the largest observed tsunami height (9.3 m) on a tide gauge since the Japan Meteorological Agency JMAA) started national tsunami-warning operations in 1952.
Audio quality is pretty much impossible to gauge, since we're on the show floor of E3, and it's extremely noisy, so I won't say anything on that front.
In reality, common sense is a difficult thing to gauge, since it's a moving target, based on ever changing cultural expectations.
The 2011 pic "Ghost Protocol," directed by Brad Bird, is a bit harder to gauge, since it had a more limited run in a few hundred theaters in its first weekend and then a proper widening in its second.
For technological/foraging innovations, the productivity of the innovation when employed by others is likely, in many situations, to be relatively straightforward to gauge, since observers can directly see the returns (higher yield, a better product etc) and make reliable judgments.
