It is the measuring stick of the world financial system and the global economy.

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Not a commodity, money is merely a measuring stick that facilitates the real exchange of wealth.

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In measurement, a contractor measures the volume of gravel online rather than with a measuring stick.

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One, it provides a framework and a measuring stick for several key strategy metrics that often get overlooked.

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Sophie is just 6 and the attendant obviously didn't have a measuring stick.

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This standard, on which the EPEAT rating system is based, is an important measuring stick for our industry and its products.

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That would make a U.S.-based stock index, such as the broad-market Russell 3000, an appropriate measuring stick for the fund, Mr. Gogerty says.

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Thirty-thousand dollars today is peanuts - who could live on that and how can that monetary figure be used as a career measuring stick anyway?

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The composite measuring stick used by my colleague Scott DeCarlo and his team found that only 28 of the 2, 000 are headquartered on the African continent.

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Rather than lightly hinting at a dollar fix, Paulson should recognize that the dollar is utterly insignificant except as a measuring stick that facilitates the wealth-enhancing exchange of goods.

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We once again trade products for products, money is the measuring stick, and if the dollar or yuan cheapens, this will ultimately reflect itself in a higher dollar or yuan price.

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The save is your measuring stick, and your paycheck.

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Money represents a measuring stick facilitating commerce.

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Only I can carry the measuring stick.

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Just as a floating foot and minute would lead to a lot of building and cooking errors, floating money would and does foster a great deal of malinvestment and trade disharmony for turning voluntary, economy-enhancing exchange with stable money as the measuring stick into something where trading partners are increasingly at odds.

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