Among state legislators, the likelihood of a politician having held a working-class job — Carnes' main statistical yardstick — has been shrinking, from roughly 5percentt a quarter-century ago to between22 percent and 3 percent today.
"I said, 'Ryan, you had a good spring, but Webster out-performed you in the scrimmages.' And so I told myself that there are certain things that I can do to make myself a better player this summer and I'm going to focus on those things and come back and beat him out in the fall". Not having the recuperating Webster to act as a yardstick has not deterred him, Knight said.
As a result, the blue chip yardstick has now lost all of its gains so far this year.
Measured by this new Barra yardstick, York has a risk factor of 28.
The house -- more cottage than Hollywood mansion by anyone's yardstick -- has a solar-heated pool.
This yardstick has its value, but there are hazards in relying too heavily on it.
Roosevelt jammed through a significant chuck of his New Deal initiatives in those first months, and that yardstick has stuck ever since.
And although multiple studies show stigma based on sexual behavior does exist, no yardstick has yet been developed for measuring stigma (and understanding its impact) in countries with different cultures, healthcare systems, and legal structures, something the study's authors hope to change.
He argued that the "harassment, alarm and distress" yardstick had been well tested in the courts.
The Western media should by any normal yardstick have lost interest in N'Dour long ago, but his next album, the semi-traditional Nothing's in Vain, was accorded a rapturous critical welcome.
