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How To Use benchmark In A Sentence

• Physicians and hospitals fear the practice could unfairly penalize practitioners and say there's no way to benchmark quality accurately.
• When Yahoo bureaucracy rules, people die in the health services and the aged in nursing homes are victimised while benchmark payments are pocketed.
• The book has been hailed as a benchmark in the debate on communication and social transformation.
• The bank kept its benchmark rate unchanged at 9%, where it has been since November, and the rediscount rate at 12%, after raising it from 7% last month. Vietnam Raises Rates
• Your hardware vendor should have benchmark data stating the expected Memory, CPU (FLOPS), Disk, and Network performance.
• Once facility executives understand actual energy consumption, they can begin benchmarking their buildings against their competitors and even their own real estate.
• And they've created this LEED standard, [for rating how energy efficient and green a building is] which is benchmarking, which is a good thing to do because most people need checklists. William McDonough On Cradle-To-Cradle Design
• The benchmark price for a barrel of crude for delivery in December slipped below $20 as the slowdown in the world economy, coupled with the warm winter, has caused demand to fall.
• Also, standard benchmarks establish a relative performance value between systems, which is good information.
• It is against this backcloth that the Spanish budget-cutting has been announced, and it will be taken as a benchmark for other euro-zone countries with high budget deficits. Spain Is Simply Shifting the Problem