The ATS, General Motors' attempt to replicate, if not surpass, the benchmarked BMW 3 Series, claimed top honours over the Ford Fusion and Honda Accord sedans.
If you can deliver a return that surpasses the benchmark indexes, you've achieved alpha — and with it, the "ephemeral promise of vast riches".
As The New York Times' Nate Silver points out, Obama's average monthly job growth of 157,000 jobs per month this year, according to Businessweek, surpasses the benchmark of about 150,000 per month that generally portends an incumbent presidential victory.
In fact, by the end of the scale-up project, 717 service delivery points included SDM in the method mix, surpassing the benchmark of 690, and more than 7,000 individuals had been trained to counsel clients on how to use SDM (Table 1).
Tetlock and his wife, the decision scientist Barbara Mellers, helped form a Penn/Berkeley team, which bested the competition and surpassed the benchmarks by 60 percent in Year 1.
Analysts say average inflation for the year is certain to surpass the 4 percent benchmark Chinese leaders had set.
Warner, which did fall to second place, boasted that it was the only studio in history to surpass the $4 billion benchmark (not accounting for inflation) for three consecutive years.
