This gives them a reference point, without making you look like a self-obsessed megalomaniac.
For the last 52 years, the equipment from Joe Kittinger's mission had been the reference point.
Food spending has become a flimsy reference point in 2009 groceries accounted for just 7.8% of Americans' spending.
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The findings provide a reference point for conservation efforts and estimates of extinction rates, the researchers say.
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We had to go to court as a reference point but the administration has now been rubber-stamped.
As a reference point, his next highest estimate of smartphone sales was with Huawei, at 47.9 million sales.
There's the range of FTSE numbers, for instance, which are a reference point for a lot of contracts.
Those lenders are able to look back at consumer behaviour over several economic cycles for a reference point.
As a reference point, He anticipates that Samsung will sell 8.4 million tablets and Amazon will sell 10.7 million.
Managua's eponymous lake is locals' most commonly used reference point in the capital.
Consider focusing on the YTD performance category as an initial reference point to identify underperforming asset classes for now.
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The electrostatic headphones combined with a companion all-valve amp are what many consider to be a reference point in hi-fi.
The bands were used to draw up a reference point of 100 which was the "median" achievement of all the students.
Using your own article as a reference point of fact is laughable, for the article makes no point substantiated by facts.
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"Any accomplishment was important only as a reference point for future improvement, not as a pleasurable memory to dwell on, " he writes.
Journalists and bloggers in a hurry might find themselves drawn to use of the phrase as a handy, easily-understood reference point.
Think about the crowd watching a tennis match for a reference point.
That bar is the reference point for the price action that follows.
In fact, Spain may a better reference point for Roussillon than France.
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For thousands of years, the reference point provided by gold has been the equivalent of Polaris in the world of everyday commerce.
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This will provide a reference point from which changes can be measured.
This would prove to be a pivotal period for human-powered aircraft, and the Gossamer designs would be the new reference point for future projects.
And even as the majority staff chooses to rewrite the Starr referral, they, as we, has a ready reference point which they have apparently rejected.
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There is nothing more boring, even to budget wonks, but the reference point against which you measure tax changes is critical to how you see those proposals.
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In response the British Bankers' Association (BBA) started publishing LIBOR rates in 1986 and they quickly became a vital reference point for the pricing of financial instruments.
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Knowing what a field looked like, day by day, during a year when it produced 180 bushels per acre or 20% less than that, gives the software a reference point.
Amazon has become the canonical reference point for every book.
And because China has been a very powerful and large market, and will continue to grow, it will form a very important and interesting reference point for advertising globally.
As a reference point, the U.S. might use the standard of the British, who now seem chipper enough about troubled southern Iraq to begin drawing down their forces there.
Miss Havisham was an obvious reference point for designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig of the label Marchesa, a favorite on the red carpet (Chapman is married to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein).
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