Five years ago, first of all, it's the measuring point.

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Although demand-side figures (measuring consumption) show flat spending, supply-side statistics (measuring production) point to healthy growth.

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The United Parcel Service has for decades followed Taylor's time-and-motion theories to make its internal operations highly efficient, to the point of measuring the paces between a double-parked truck and a customer's doorstep.

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How is Israel, at this point in time, measuring the success of its own military strikes?

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From the envelope emerges the MacBook Air--the thinnest notebook computer on the planet, measuring .16 inches at its narrowest point.

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Spending and deficit reduction negotiations began last year, and the Administration has been consistent in measuring deficit reduction from the beginning from that point.

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For the end point, we would be better off measuring the ability of people to sit on the front porch and drink a mint julep.

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When I talked to Krupp a day after the panel he said one of the big challenges was just measuring methane emissions from fracking and determining the break-even point where any fugitive emissions would not exceed the carbon savings from replacing coal.

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At that point, the rig calculates where light entered the polymer by measuring how much it has diminished during its travel time, and then composes an image from that data.

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