If you want to create a new process in your company, make it the Yardstick Elimination Process, and give your employees a hundred bucks whenever they 86 another tedious process whose only function is to slow down momentum.
His aim is to make the German station a yardstick against which other news reports can be checked: not so much a loud voice as a dependable one.As competition and cacophony intensify, this less heroic vision of international broadcasting may point the way for others.
It's seventh on donations alone, but doesn't make the top 10 on either of the other two yardsticks.
Speaking for the German government, Mr. Westerwelle said, "It is necessary to make the Afghan government, to make President Karzai, realize that good governance has to become his very own yardstick".
The precedent of earlier FCC rules assuring an open phone network made it clear that the yardstick for network management should be based on Title II of the Communications Act — the same test that had worked to deliver the dawn of the Internet.
Mr. Bartley's uncompromisingly conservative views -- the guiding principle of the opinion pages is "free people, free markets" -- have made The Journal's editorials a yardstick for politicians and policy advocates who favor supply-side economics, disdain any hint of political correctness and relish confrontation with ideological opponents.
Later in the hearing, Smith made the case for a new yardstick with which to measure an NSF grant that would focus on its likely contribution to "the national interest".
The increased frequency of the ticks makes the clocks more useful, Ludlow said — much as a yardstick that measures down to sixteenths of an inch offers more precision than one that only indicates feet.
I might add that it is also a fact of life for all of us that, while we do well to pay attention to what our consciences tell us, we cannot make that a yardstick for the conduct of others.
The implied PPP, our hamburger standard, is the exchange rate that makes the dollar price of a burger the same in each country.Most currencies are trading a long way from that yardstick.
