Because DISH failed to meet its interim benchmark, it must make a detailed "renewal showing" that, among other things, involves the date service was commenced and the level and quality of service it actually provides.
To accomplish this, the Order requires carriers to meet interim, annual benchmarks over the next five years in order to ensure that they achieve PSAP-level compliance no later than September 11 , 2012
Current "interim" or "benchmark" assessments that many states use do not meet this need because they are designed to predict end-of-year test scores, rather than to guide the details of teaching.
Since 2011, the interim national benchmark for HH compliance has been 70%, and aggregate institution-level compliance has been reported publically online.
Early in the new year, Iraqi leaders are supposed to agree on an interim constitution, the first benchmark in the Bush administration's plan for transferring power to a transitional Iraqi government by summer.
The majority of student testing does not come from the annual standardized test itself but from the extensive diagnostic, benchmarking, and interim assessments students take throughout the year.
In May, Warner and other Republicans skeptical about Bush's war strategy were able to break through the Senate's logjam by proposing the 18 benchmarks used in this week's interim White House report.
The interim manager, Jimmy Phillips, wants that performance to be the benchmark in their final four encounters.
"So we need to see interim measures, we need to see deadlines, we need to see benchmarks," she told BBC Radio 4's World at One. Wai Hnin, from the Burma Campaign UK, told the BBC the recent changes in the country were proof that sanctions were working, but there was still "no democratic system in Burma yet".
India's benchmark tumbled 3.6percentt after the government, proposing its interim budget, offered no new stimulus measures.
