But he continued to measure himself on the yardstick of the Great American Novel.
Yet from then on, the yardstick of his economic thinking remained Marxist, adjusted, where necessary, to Indian conditions.
Judged by many of the yardsticks of success he set before his first presidential race in March 2000, however, Mr. Putin has often faltered.
"The logical conclusion is there is some role played" by human affairs, added Dr. Bradley, whose studies of past climates were one of the yardsticks used to measure the reliability of the new work.
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.
In other countries, the top of the pay scale is often higher (see chart), but it takes much longer to get there.The government plans to offer teachers the chance to earn, in time, up to £40,000 but only if they pass rigorous appraisals of their performance, in which the improvement in pupils' exam results will be one of the yardsticks.
In fact, consumption of steel is considered to be one of the yardsticks to judge the developmental status of a country.
What's more, as Spencer Ackerman writes, "according to most of the yardsticks chosen by the military -- but not all -- the surge in Afghanistan fell short of its stated goal: stopping the Taliban's momentum".
The work undertaken by the Irish presidency has already established many of the yardsticks we need to follow.
