This city needs another yardstick: not the quality of life, but lack of it.
Who needs a universal yardstick, for that matter?
"We need a yardstick for success.
For that, you need a yardstick or a friend to measure the distance from your fingers to your toes as you reach for them.
They looked as long as yardsticks.
Three-quarters of companies include blood pressure, cholesterol and tobacco use as yardsticks.
You'll need a metal yardstick or meter stick, a thick dowel with a diameter the same as the width of your ruler, rough steel wool, sandpaper, primer, and cloth or duct tape for wrapping the grip, as well as contact cement or metal epoxy adhesive.
Public plants, Roosevelt said, could bring power to those who needed it and serve as a yardstick for measuring and keeping in check the prices charged by private power companies.
The statistics are more important as a yardstick of progress than as a precise measure of deaths.
Vermont has embraced this yardstick as well, and the roster of state and international initiatives is growing daily.
