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...Still, last week's murder of Millan, one of the the highest-ranking police officials ever to be gunned down in Mexico, set a new benchmark in the Colombia-style drug carnage that continues to rage from Tijuana to Cancun. Mexico has already logged almost 1,200 drug-related killings this year - putting it well on track to break last year's record of almost 2,500 - as an increasingly chaotic array of drug gangs fight one another for trafficking turf, and against any officials who dare to confront them...
...student data report no longer exists,” he said in an interview before the meeting. “We haven’t used it in years. We use the benchmark reports. Those are different...
Subsequent meetings of the school committee will determine how this “benchmark report” will be organized and presented this year...
...problem is that intervention usually has unintended consequences. In theory, the export ban should ease prices in India because more rice should be available. But because the global price remains a benchmark, Indian rice traders are resistant to selling their stocks for much less than they would get on the international market. That means less rice on the domestic market and higher prices for Indians. As economist Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar wrote recently in the Times of India, cutting exports is a form of national hoarding: "Governments would like to believe that hoarding by traders is terrible, whereas hoarding...
Until May 29, that is, when Commerce releases a revised "preliminary" GDP number. On June 26 comes the "final" first-quarter GDP, but even that won't really be final: in a few years there will be a "benchmark revision" that changes everything yet again...