Another common yardstick was not made available when the Ross School declined to release the graduates' average SAT score.
Twice Over, a four-year-old son of Observatory, races for Khaled Abdullah, one of Cecil's most loyal supporters during his recent leaner times and, although no champion by any yardstick, was not winning a Group One out of turn.
Yet, argued Goldthorpe, the crucial yardstick was not absolute but relative social mobility – that is, the relative life chances of working-class children compared with other children – and this, he stressed, revealed a very different story about what had been really happening (or not happening) in Britain since the war.
An addiction to yardsticks isn't a sign of leadership -- but rather of fear-based, old-school, factory-style supervision ("factory" in this case meaning a factory circa 1820).
Much the same message emerges from another valuation method, which, rather like the price-to-dividends ratio for equities, measures the relationship of house prices to rents.Yet such yardsticks are not the final word.
My colleague Joe Folkman and I found that we can predict with a high level of certainty that the yardstick being used by one executive is not the same yardstick being used by another.
Walking along a yardstick, I soon found, is not only unnatural but produces widely varying results.
The yardstick for a president is "not really liberal or conservative," Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, has said.
Height per se is not the yardstick".
Although PFI deals may offer value, that is not the yardstick by which they are being measured.
