The first is that no one at all is measuring how many hospital admissions are as a result of alcohol.

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However, the tech cycles were much deeper than the general economic cycles, and as a result, the company was really measuring relative volatility, not performance.

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The result is multiple layers of graphene sheets, measuring five nanometres (millionths of a metre) long and two nanometres wide.

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The result is that the two have collaborated on a new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, where the two argue that social fundraising can no longer treat measurement as an afterthought because it has become a requirement and that to fully understand a program, community engagement must also be measured.

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The bottom line would appear to be that when the monthly BLS job numbers the number that every state uses to assess job growth produce a bad result for Scott Walker, it is appropriate to turn to a different, more attractive method of measuring job growth, despite the fact that these numbers cannot be verified until after the election.

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