It spent nearly as much, however, and is estimated to have finished the year with less than $30 million of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, known as Ebitda, a commonly used yardstick for media companies.
The blue-chip Standard & Poor's 500 index is a commonly used yardstick for stocks.
(Using yardsticks as swords is an apt decision).
What we were doing before was, in effect, using different yardsticks for different companies, and it made them difficult to compare to each other.
These hairpin spike-in (HPSI) probes, designed to have identical length and similar sequence characteristics to shRNAs, may be used as yardsticks for artifact detection and data normalization methods.
The failure rate for startups, using a yardstick in which investors lose everything (i.e., all of the company's assets are liquidated), is between thirty and forty per cent, according to Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
Using one yardstick made stocks comparable.
These two anchoring points -- utility in use of work at the margin, and utility in use of the leisure activity forgone in favor of exercise -- can be used as a yardstick for the measurement of the value of utility in use of exercise.
The LC50/EC50 ratio is considered as therapeutic ratio which is often used to evaluate the efficacy of an antifouling compound in relation to its toxicity and has been commonly used as a yardstick for a potential compound (Qian et al. 2010).
The Victorian middle-class is used as a yardstick for evaluation.
"He's going to be used as the yardstick for years to come.
