Essentially they bought a blank piece of paper, a certificate of how much they loved Valencia with no real, tangible value.
Workers whose output is tangible and measurable — how much garbage is picked up, how many streets are cleared of snow — are increasingly evaluated according to numerical goals.
Now after decades of cleanup efforts in the river, the oyster has emerged as a tangible measure of how much more needs to be done to return the river closer to its natural state.
Little did I know that each morning 3 years later, I would still find glancing at the number of postdocs in our database to be one of the most satisfying and tangible reminders of how much progress we have made.
If they were manufacturing a physical product like an iPhone, then alright, they would have significant, tangible expenses but how much does a Tweet cost to make?
"Special Olympics Indonesia is demonstrating in a very tangible way just how much Indonesian children can achieve when provided with equality of opportunity, free of stigma or exclusion," she noted.
These offers and promotions would be based not on search queries, but on more tangible data, such as how much a customer tends to spend.
Much will depend on the economic forecasts at the time and how much today's growth stimulus has had any tangible impact.
On an individual level, there's the obvious, tangible cost of imbibing -- how much someone actually spends on alcohol -- that many Americans are reminded of when they pore over their receipts and reflect on their budgets come tax time.
They're very aware of how much time they have left, in a much more tangible way than other people are".
