Yesterday's results, for instance, did not say whether the company's media operations made any money, or how much the company made or lost per share.
EBay's "Best Match" search results, for instance, give higher placement to listings offering free shipping and sellers with high feedback ratings.
Disclosures accompanying third-quarter results, for instance, showed a lot of disparity in the valuation of Alt-A mortgages (though definitions of what constitutes Alt-A can vary).
Dixon said the report showed that clear targets and effective performance management can produce results, for instance, in reducing waiting times, "but we do know that this regime will only work in a small number of areas of performance.
Only an earthquake — the Iowa results, for instance — could shatter such previously immutable story lines as the Clinton campaign's invincibility and the innate hostility of white voters to a black candidate.
British-born Bangladeshis have pulled away from British-born Pakistanis in terms of school results, for instance, and now perform better than white British children.What explains the French pattern?
Mr. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, disputed that characterization, pointing to what they described as ground-breaking results: for instance, that the achievement gap between city students and their state counterparts had been cut in half over the past three years and is now 7 percentage points.
Grigoriadis could have spent more time on the survey, but she does address explicitly some of the concerns that people have raised about its results: for instance, the N.C.V.S. sometimes gathers information in person, with students' parents present; its questions are worded in a way that is likely inhibitory; and the survey does not ask about "incapacitated rape".
Energy companies make up only about 6% of the S&P 500, but their outsize losses as crude oil prices have plunged since late 2014 have had a disproportionately large impact on those headline results: for instance, in the fourth quarter, all S&P 500 companies reported that profits fell 2.9%.
Food and Drug Administration inspectors found egregious problems: some Red Cross blood centers would keep testing blood until the tests delivered the desired results; for instance, blood that tested borderline-positive for a given virus would be retested five or six times until the numbers came out negative.
