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...committee selects teams with a Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) above .500, and then uses four criteria to list the teams in comparison to one another. The four criteria are a team’s record against common opponents, its head-to-head competition, its performance against teams with RPIs at or above .500 (i.e. teams under consideration) and the team’s RPI itself (a combination of a team’s winning percentage and the winning percentage of the teams it faces). Bonus points are awarded for “good wins” with the exact amount...
...developed world to do business. The penny-pinching brigade at KPMG set out to find the least expensive cities in which to run a company, and indicators pointed north. Canada beat out 10 other industrialized nations on 27 metrics like labor, taxes and utilities. Each country's cost index, below, is benchmarked to a U.S. score of 100. So, for example, costs run almost 24% higher in Japan. The U.S. ranked No. 7, as it did two years ago, when the survey was previously conducted. Among major cities, Montreal, Melbourne and Toronto proved most affordable. On the other...
When Yahoo announced last week that it had begun allowing sites to pay for inclusion in the Web index it uses to generate search results, it drew criticism for blurring the line between advertising and legitimate search results. But Yahoo's approach is not unprecedented. At least two other sites, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves, allow companies to pay to be indexed. (Ask Jeeves says it will phase out paid inclusion in April.) According to Yahoo, the practice will not corrupt search results. As the Web keeps growing, billions of Web pages are overlooked. Inclusion in the index means that...
...particularly elusive. Eventually I located him in Niagra Falls, New York and he told me about his admiration for Chuck Berry guitar licks, rose tattoos and John Kerry. As my book went to press the only Swift crewmate I couldn?t locate was Gardner. A quick count in the index of Tour of Duty shows that Gardner?s name appears on a dozen different pages throughout my narrative. He also periodically appeared in Kerry?s war diaries. Still, my various inquiries to the U.S. Naval Historical Center, the Swift Boat Crew Directory and other outstanding reference outlets proved futile...
...earnings quality count when it comes to stock performance? Absolutely. Ask David Bianco, an accounting analyst at UBS who has scrutinized earnings quality. He found that since 1998, the 50 companies with the best quality earnings have returns that were about four times that of the S&P 500 index. The bottom 50? Zero returns over the same period...