Over the preceding three years, the yardstick of relative performance grew in popularity; by 2004, it was the most commonly-used measure, according to PIRC.
Below, according to government data, are four-year public colleges with the highest percentage graduating within six years, the common yardstick for measuring rates.
As a result, says Michael Block, the school's co-founder, our students are "two years ahead of Arizona and California schools and one year ahead of the east coast".But that, he emphasises, is not the yardstick he and his wife Olga use.
One year to the date after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 for the first time, the vintage yardstick of the American stock market is once again flirting with the five-digit milestone.
By contrast, data collected by Medtronic, using that three-year yardstick, indicated the lead continued to work in about 95percentt of patients.
Eleven years on, One Touch remains the yardstick by which any new girl group that doesn't want to be the Saturdays gets judged.
Mullen is twenty-four years old and six foot one, with yardstick-wide shoulders and close-cropped hair.
Mary Lomax, six years younger, was the more proper of the two her back yardstick straight, her snow-white hair carefully permed.
He was seventy-four, whish is thirty-two years more than the real Elvis got, but is that a yardstick?
Mary Lomax, six years younger, was the more proper of the two — her back yardstick straight, her snow-white hair carefully permed.
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