In subsequent years, however, that yardstick of "minimum credible deterrence" has been regularly recalibrated as India's policymakers went on to commit themselves to upgrade the country's nuclear arms program with a new generation of more powerful hydrogen bombs designed to be city-busters.
Polls aren't the only, or even best, yardsticks of that.
Delgado (1986) affirmed that "the yardstick of integration of a pair of village markets within a given season is that the price spread between them stays approximately constant, subject to random variation either way, over the weeks in the season in question".
"By the time I had finished my sixth novel I had this nagging sense that my yardstick of contemporary weirdness was really an 80s yardstick," he said.
The average coefficient of variation a yardstick that measures dispersion around the mean estimate is half of what it was in 1989.
But interviews with people on all sides of the investigation — government officials, Google supporters, advocates for Microsoft and other competitors, and antitrust experts and economists — show that many of the yardsticks the commission used to measure its outcomes were remarkably similar to Google's own.
Lord Nicholls has now ruled that the "yardstick of equality" should not necessarily be applied to "non-matrimonial" assets acquired before the wedding.
Mr Graham says that the yardstick of the show's success will be how neatly it treads the line between life and art, particularly when poking fun at America's two agenda-driven news outlets, the left-wing MSNBC and Rupert Murdoch's conservative Fox.
Shim writes, "Placed's goal continues to be the adoption of a common yardstick that can measure the offline effectiveness of advertising across multiple platforms and publishers".
Short for "adjusted consolidated segment operating income," Acsoi is one of three yardsticks that Groupon, the online coupon giant, recommends investors use to determine how it is performing.
