Word: benchmark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yankees are the benchmark of excellence in baseball, whether we talk of a team or of individuals...
...Erykah Badu. Roots drummer Ahmir hopes, in the future, the more creative wing of performers in hip-hop will form a support network. "There are some people in hip-hop that care about leaving a mark," he says. "There are some of us that look at Innervisions as a benchmark, or Blood on the Tracks or Blue or Purple Rain. Leaving a mark is more important than getting a dollar. I think Lauryn's album is one of the first gunshots of hip-hop art the world is gonna...
Being on the cover of TIME or having yourself rendered in paraffin at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum of London could be considered a benchmark for fame and infamy. Appearing in both spots could be a benchmark for making the TIME 100. Since last April, TIME, in conjunction with CBS News, has been saluting this century's most influential men and women with the TIME 100, a series of special issues profiling 20 leaders in five categories...
...poorly it has been managed. The compounded 10 year return was 12 percent--among the worst (if not the worst) records of any endowment of comparable size. In the past three years alone (the only years for which Radcliffe shows these numbers), the endowment has underperformed its modest benchmark number by an average of more than three percentage points per year...
...selling their own stock lately, and the pace will quicken in coming months as these insiders become free to trade tens of millions of "locked up" shares resulting from recent IPOs. If you have a pulse, you've wondered how much longer prices can remain untethered to any valuation benchmark. You may also have wondered how you can profit when many Net stocks inevitably fall...