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...annual report, HMC President Jack R. Meyer called the returns from 1995 "somewhat disappointing." Indeed, 1995 was the first time in four years that HMC fell short of its performance benchmark--the return HMC officials predict at the beginning of the fiscal year...
...started singing with Chick Webb's Big Band in the mid-'30s, when she was still a teenager, and later did a lot of swinging and scatting with Dizzy Gillespie. But it was her collaboration in the '50s with producer/manager Norman Granz on a benchmark series of "songbook" albums that gave Fitzgerald the musical regentship that never passed from her. "Norman felt that I should do other things," she remembered, "so he produced the Cole Porter Songbook with me. It was a turning point in my life...
Next month Western officials must certify that conditions can be met for free and fair Bosnian elections in mid-September. They patently can't, says the International Helsinki Federation. Even the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which will oversee the vote, concluded in a private "benchmark paper" that the minimal requirements set down in Dayton do not exist; there is no freedom of movement, no freedom of expression, no freedom of association. The blame for much of that lies directly with Karadzic, who has challenged or rejected every civilian provision of the Dayton pact...
...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...