Word: benchmark
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Army, meanwhile, without junior swingman and leading scorer George Tatum--lost to an aggravated groin injury--struggled all night to find an offensive rhythm, hitting only 24-of-62 as Harvard kept the Cadets under the 40 percent benchmark at 38.7 percent...
...YORK: Brother, can you spare a study? TIME's Adam Cohen reports that nobody has bothered to research whether welfare-to-work reforms are working, even as the national initiative's first benchmark deadline approaches. "While the states are boasting about so many people disappearing from their welfare rolls, they have no idea where these people are actually going," says Cohen. "Do they get jobs? Are they ending up in homeless shelters...
Well, no, most experts agree, at least if you have more than a few thousand dollars in the market. For starters, few deny that the rampaging U.S. market is long overdue for some kind of pullback. The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 hasn't suffered even a 10% decline in seven years, two times the second longest such period. A lot of good things are happening in the U.S. economy, including low inflation and rising profits. But even if U.S. stocks can avoid a tumble, they certainly cannot keep doubling every three years, as they recently did. And even compared...
Meyers said his long-range goals are more modest. Over a five-year period he hopes to beat the benchmark by 1 percent and the average fund by about 2 percent per year...
Factoring in this year's numbers brings HMC's five-year returns to 18.9 percent on average, 3.2 percent above the benchmark and 4.9 percent above the average fund...