Word: benchmark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday's pace. The NYSE composite index was down 0.53 at 342.87, the Standard & Poor's 500 composite was down 0.49 at 640.30, the American Stock Exchange's market value index was up 0.74 at 562.52, and the Nasdaq composite was up 7.07 at 1,098.14. The 30- year benchmark Treasury bond was extending its losses, down 5/8 point and yielding 6.74 percent...
...tool to help improve his game, and he should be able to learn from working with the IBM scientists."The Real Game"Chung-Jen Tan, who heads IBM's parallel processing research department as well as the Deep Blue team, sees chess as merely a convenient, off-the-shelf benchmark to test cool technology, an effective proof for a tool that will soon be assigned to managing other facets of our lives," Dowell notes. The most immediate application? A process for extracting meaning from a flood of apparently chaotic information known as 'data mining.' "For example," says Dowell...
...survey also found that the average annual income expected by members of the class of 1995 in 20 years is $98,000. Seniors said the amount was a good benchmark...
...think they [the returns] were good. Straight equities did better than the S&P [Standard and Poor's 500 stock index], though they didn't meet their benchmark," said Robert G. Stone Jr. '44, a member of the Corporation, Harvard's governing board...
...performance also fell 0.4 percent short of HMC's internal benchmark, the Policy Portfolio, which it uses to determine the success of its year...