They correctly gauged the loyalty of their fanbase, and it paid off for them.
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Kraft will undoubtedly raise its offer once it has gauged reaction to its formal bid.
The second study was similar, but researchers gauged perceptions by providing subjects with personality profiles of made-up colleagues.
But in looking at images of an eye, participants easily gauged the difference between human and non-human images.
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The survey gauged the opinions of CEOs at companies with more than 250 employees in 13 business categories.
But the success of the program can be gauged by the financial success but the extension of the concept.
The strength of the new protectionist mood can be gauged by the government's willingness to tolerate legal uncertainty and collateral damage.
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The size of a fund, and the point when it needed to mature, could be gauged in the light of predicted illnesses.
Camilla then spent an hour walking us through the footwork - adapting and refining the routine as she gauged the crowd's ability.
Just how unlikely investors are to get their money back can be gauged by the default statistics that the rating agencies produce.
The extent of the potential damage can be gauged from the fact that more than one-third of American clothing imports now come from Asia.
Be it Facebook, Twitter, Pandora or even the more traditional outlets like The New York Times, success is gauged by the number of users.
Based on the names alone, on a scale of 1 to 7, participants gauged the likelihood of significant changes and improvements for each successive model.
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So success is a relative thing, gauged by margins of defeat.
The popularity of the eBay app suite can be gauged from the fact that 25 million of these downloads came in the preceding six month period.
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And he probably wondered at the identity of Lincoln's guests and gauged whether Major Rathbone looked like the type who could pose a threat to his plans.
For starters, the participants' sodium consumption was gauged by measuring the sodium content of their urine over just one 24-hour period at the beginning of the study.
In the garments, body temperature is monitored through a thin-film transistor, while respiration is gauged using electrical resistance, but both technologies employ the pentacene as a sensing layer.
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But in publishing, reader satisfaction has largely been gauged by sales data and reviews metrics that offer a postmortem measure of success but can't shape or predict a hit.
Audit problems can be gauged by factors like the size of the discretionary accruals that firms are allowed to make and the frequency with which accounts are restated.
More generally, their enthusiasm for drastic cost-cutting can be gauged by the fact that the three banks will be put into a holding company, presided over by three chairmen.
She said "the importance of their contribution" can be gauged by efforts of the Iraqi government and U.S. military to register members into Iraqi security forces and non-security related jobs.
Compelling evidence from the Kauffman Foundation indicates the economic health of the U.S. can be gauged by the activity of the startup community, and recent data paints a bleak picture.
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Her "Virginia Woolf" is so precisely gauged in both timing and tone that you'll scarcely notice the moment at the end of the first act when comedy suddenly gives way to horror.
Some measure of how far the scientific debate has shifted can be gauged from the extensive list of sub-clauses in the title of a two-day Royal Society discussion meeting on exoplanets earlier this week.
The goal is to give consumers a valid comparison point between different vehicles, so if one is shopping for a new Ford C-Max or a Toyota Prius, the numbers for fuel economy can be accurately gauged.
The government has shrewdly gauged investors' greed but overlooked their fear: that the projects will be mired in expensive delays, that the government will change the rules, or that an investment-grade rating will remain beyond reach.
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In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popular means of transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.
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