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...rest of the industrialized world may be in worse shape. To measure excess capacity, economists use a metric called the "output gap," defined as the difference between the potential output of a given economy and what is actually being produced (including services). The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is projecting that, despite global production cutbacks, the situation is actually getting worse because the recovery will be weak. In 2010 the output gap among 24 OECD member nations is projected to widen to -5.7% - the widest gulf by far in the post-World War II era. (See 25 people...
...Europe and Israel to show results for his engagement strategy, Obama had warned Iran that failure to discuss international concerns over its nuclear program would be met with an escalation of sanctions. U.S. and European diplomats had taken great care to lower expectations for the Geneva meeting - the metric of success, they stressed, would be the tone of the meeting and Tehran's willingness to engage on the issues of most concern to the West...
...officials won't judge the Oct. 1 meeting in Geneva as a one-off sign of Iran's intentions. Administration officials have indicated that they will decide by the end of the year whether Iran is cooperating in good faith. European officials suggest that the metric for success in Geneva may be simply the tone of the meeting. The last time the same parties sat around the table, Iran's negotiator, Saeed Jalili, subjected his interlocutors to lengthy philosophical harangues in a kind of diplomatic filibuster. This time they'll be looking for signs that Iran is ready to cooperate...
...Harvard Law Class of 2007 worked in judicial clerkships, with 18.2 percent of the class in Article III courts. Law schools are often judged on the basis of how many of their graduates clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justices, though they are not formally ranked on this metric. Despite being about a third the size of Harvard Law, Yale currently has 10 clerks at the Court, while Harvard has nine. This year, due to errors in reporting of data, some law schools were assigned abnormally high rankings—an irregularity that saw the University of North Dakota School...
Revenue per available room, or revpar, which is a key metric used to measure room revenue growth, plunged 18.2% between January and August - the sharpest decline recorded for this period since STR began tracking the industry in 1987, says Bobby Bowers, senior vice president of STR's operations...