Word: benchmark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sign of rebelliousness to come. A fourth of the way through the benchmark 100-day push for their contract, Republicans can count a major House victory with the passage last week of the balanced-budget amendment, which will require an estimated $1 trillion in spending cuts by 2002. It must still pass the Senate, where Democrats want Republicans to detail in advance just where the cuts will fall, and then be approved by at least 38 state legislatures, a more iffy prospect. But whatever the pitfalls ahead, it was the bumpy process of getting it through the House that surprised...
...serious building-a bit pretentious here and there, but with a sure grasp of primary form, sympathetic display spaces and refined detailing. It sets a benchmark for public architecture in San Francisco, a city that has been notoriously ill served by architects over the past quarter-century...
...fourth network, started by media baron Rupert Murdoch in 1986. With its methodical, one-night- at-a-time pursuit of the Big Three, Fox was a tough competitor because it played by different rules. Even though it now programs 15 hours of prime time a week -- one FCC benchmark for what constitutes a network -- Fox has managed to avoid the commission restrictions on program ownership and syndication that govern the Big Three. This annoys the other networks, which argue that Fox receives an unfair competitive advantage from Washington while it escapes such public-interest obligations as maintaining a news division...
...Bingeing is the benchmark after which drinking lapses into a drinking lifestyle--drinking to get drunk and dangerous activity," Weschler said...
Stocks fell as the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond climbed above 8% for the first time since May 1992. Although interest rates in general have been trending up recently, today's move stemmed partly from the fact that the Treasury is due to auction off $28.25 billion worth of two- and five-year notes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Traders apparently feared that this influx of new issues could drive prices down, and yields up, especially with the Federal Reserve expected to lift short-term rates again as soon as next month. In response, the Dow Jones Industrial...