Word: benchmark
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...exceeded its own internal benchmark, the Policy Portfolio, which returned 6.8 percent during the past year...
...except AIDS, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Firearms are now wasting a million years of potential life -- measured in working years -- in America every 12 months. (Statisticians reached that figure by subtracting a person's age at death from age 65, the benchmark for retirement.) By that reckoning, the amount of years lost to guns rose 13.6 percent from 1980 to 1991. Three-fourths of that increase stemmed from murders, most in the late1980s as more teens and young adults died in gunfire...
...said none of the three are controlled by either the Republicans or the Democrats at this point, thus setting up the 1994 elections as a benchmark for determining party strength...
...officials have noted that the company also outperformed its own policy portfolio, an internal benchmark based on Harvard's long-term asset allocation plan...
...Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500, an industry-wide measure of stock performance, was down 3.6 percent, and HMC's internal policy portfolio, the benchmark against which the HMC measures its own performance, was down 0.5 percent during this same time...