The Economist's Big Mac index is a crude estimate of how far market exchange rates differ from PPP.
To guard against this, the authors added to their model a measure of how far the exchange rate has shifted from its fair value.
Certainly it wasn't scary — but it also showed how far these exchanges have to go.
In this context, though, I wonder how far into the exchange it showed up, because if bad publicity was a concern you'd think a period of reflection would have arrived somewhere around the 146th obsessive text rather than conveniently at the point at which you're worried about potential legal ramifications.
Divisions over how far to bend in exchange for joining the European Union, and particularly whether to abandon the death penalty, provided the catalyst for this week of government resignations and political gamesmanship.
The paper elaborates on the first findings of a usability study to explore in how far AR improves information exchange and team situational awareness.
In a measure of how far things have moved, in our exchange today he says that "the Chinese government is surprisingly nimble and flexible in its responses to new technologies, far more adaptive than the prophets of the Internet would ever have given them credit for".
Remember that some factors may be out of your control, for example, if your broadband is via a telephone line, as opposed to a Virgin cable, your download speed will ulti-mately depend on how far you live from the local exchange.
The foreign ministers' dinner called by the EU Council's president, Donald Tusk, will exchange notes on how far they believe Trump will follow through on his dramatic, but sometimes inconsistent, pledges to turn US foreign policy upside down, including over Russia, Syria, Iran and Nato.
It means that one of the biggest factors for those signed up to DSL packages is how far they live from a telephone exchange.
