Mr Reeves and his Brookings colleague Kimberly Howard take a composite measure of these things called the HOME scale (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment) and relate it to how well children do in later life, using data from a big federal survey of those born in the 1980s and 1990s.The results are striking.
Then come; and wouldst thou know, O sweetest Pleasure, What measure of these goods must me befall?
The percentage of donations spent on overhead is one measure of these qualities.
Many suggest the Americans' warm reception is a measure of these communities' sense of abandonment.
But it is a measure of these uncertain times that he wants to take his time before endorsing again the man he voted for in 2000.
Six, seven, eight metres up and more, enough, in the standard journalistic measure of these things, to clear a double-decker bus or two.
The real measure of these programs, he said in an interview, is less the number of weapons collected than "how many ex-combatants have become stakeholders in peace".
Hadith cannot be rightly assessed unless the measure of these two elements and their interaction is properly taken.
In short, it's hard to take the full measure of these sculptures and even harder to make the connection between geometry and labor, cubes and anarchy.
It being the duty of journalism to take the measure of these winds, I hereby dedicate my year-end column to ranking some of the worst Americans of the year.
The underlying truth is that while most Americans have made up their minds about the candidates and their positions, enough voters are uncertain about the measure of these two men to keep the race unpredictable.
