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Paul Krugman us against the gold standard mentality, which, he says, might lead to premature monetary tightening. He cites the cover story in this weeks Barrons that proclaims: Theres no need for short-term rates to remain near zero now that the economy is recovering. (Slate)
EBay to get power boost from electric fuel cell system Oct 19, 2009
The site, which is being built to the s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold standard in South Jordan, Utah, will deliver state-of-the-art efficiencies in cooling and power management, as well as in IT infrastructure and software. Mary Duan can be reached at 408. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Drug could provide first treatment for scleroderma Oct 18, 2009
Dr. Spiera said the findings of his open-label study need to be interpreted cautiously, and ultimately corroborated by evidence from a randomized controlled trial, the gold standard of clinical trials. Until now, no drug has been shown to be effective in treating scleroderma in a clinical trial. (EurekAlert!)
White Gold Web ad may woo to the moo Oct 18, 2009
Good news for the dairymen: David and Tiffany said that the Internet commercial met their gold standard -- it was worth the trouble of turning on the computer. They found the rock opera funny and memorable. (Fresno Bee)
Calipari gets welcome at packed Rupp Oct 17, 2009
"It's a vision where we are the gold standard, not just for college basketball but for all college athletics.". Smoke and pyrotechnics filled the air as Calipari -- decked in a gray shirt, not blue -- strolled across a huge stage erected at one end of the arena, flanked by three enormous video boards and surrounded by screaming fans. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Worthwhile shows for kids Oct 17, 2009
This is the gold standard of science-based series. It combines curiosity, ingenuity, science, danger and hosts Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage and Kari Byron (who are more than half the fun) in a series that nearly every channel has tried to rip off - oops, emulate - since. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Soprano family values Oct 16, 2009
Bondy: Joe Girardi gets judged anew against the gold standard of managing. Some classic big screen romances have been set right in NYers' backyards. (Yahoo News -- The Sopranos)
How Popular Should America Want To Be? Oct 16, 2009
And in the highly unlikely event that U.S. policymakers were willing to make the approval of others the gold standard for successful policymaking, they would still find it impossible to put the pursuit of good international standing first. The reason is simply that others disagree on what the United States should do in order to win their approval. (CBS News)
Washington awash with talent Oct 16, 2009
Long before there were Mariners and Seahawks and before the football team won a Rose Bowl, Washington crew set a gold standard in Seattle. Last Saturday, the four IRA champion boats were honored at halftime of the home game with Arizona, bringing their oars onto the gridiron as 60,000 people watched a HuskyTron video of the boat s massive late push that nipped favored California. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
First-of-kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used To Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts Performance Oct 16, 2009
The problem is there is no independent, infallible gold standard to establish conclusions in forensic psychiatry, as there is in most other areas of medicine. If there were some way, however, to measure accuracy without a gold standard, mental health experts might be more credible, Mossman says ... Over the last two decades, statisticians have developed mathematical techniques that in some cases make it possible to estimate diagnostic accuracy without gold standards. (Science Daily)
Chinese herbs may help prevent diabetes Oct 16, 2009
The gold standard for proving a treatment's efficacy is a clinical trial where participants are randomly assigned to receive either the real treatment or a placebo, with both the researchers and participants unaware of who is taking the real drug. Grant's team found that those processes were often absent or not clearly detailed in the trials they reviewed. (MSNBC -- Health)
Ruiz: Keep America's 'store' open to immigrants Oct 15, 2009
Ruiz: If American Dream were a product, it would be the gold standard. Everybody wants to buy the product, but "stockholders" wary of chaos, he says. (CNN -- US)
Feminism Ruined Womens' Lives? Not Really Oct 15, 2009
Happiness is, of course, a subjective state, but suicide is a cold, hard fact, and the suicide rate has been the gold standard of misery since sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote the book on it in 1897. As Stevenson and Wolfers report -- somewhat sheepishly, we must imagine -- "contrary to the subjective well-being trends we document, female suicide rates have been falling, even as male suicide rates have remained roughly constant through most of our sample [1972-2006]." Women may get the blues;... (CBS News)
Dow crosses 10,000; on the right, crickets chirp Oct 15, 2009
If Opec has their way , we will be going back to the gold standard. In Magic the Gathering this would be an You get your whole deck in your hand till end of turn and all lands tapped , then the bubble pops as the reality of the fact there are no more cards to draw and you lose, that s the US econ at the moment. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Great expectations Oct 15, 2009
There are many proponents of gold as a backing for currency and a return to a "gold standard", and there are many other ingenious, but less credible proposals. I propose an entirely different approach, and that is to distinguish between the value standard we use, and the currencies we exchange by reference to the standard. (Asia Times Online)
Graymark Healthcare Announces Partnership With Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Edmond Based State of the Art Sleep Diagnostic Center Oct 15, 2009
Dr. Gasbarra is Board Certified in Sleep Medicine, Pulmonology, Internal Medicine and Critical Care and provides the Oklahoma City community with a comprehensive, gold standard of care. Nocturna also has the benefit of its Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kevin Lewis, a Board Certified doctor in Sleep Medicine, Pulmonology, Internal Medicine and Critical Care. (Primezone Releases)
Gold's true standard bearers Oct 15, 2009
From practically any time since the abandonment of the gold standard against the US dollar in 1973, back when gold was trading at almost any price, you can find the foundation stones of almost any argument you want. For instance, if you bought gold at its previous high of $850 in 1980, holding it through 20 years of price decline to its recent rally would have resulted in you losing almost two-thirds of your initial investment basis through inflation, not to mention your losses through storage... (Asia Times Online)
Minimally Invasive Radical Prostatectomy Shows Advantages, But Also Certain Complications Oct 15, 2009
"Moreover, the widespread direct-to-consumer advertising and marketed benefits of robotic-assisted MIRP in the United States may promote publication bias against studies that detail challenges and suboptimal outcomes early in the MIRP learning curve. Until comparative effectiveness of robotic-assisted MIRP can be demonstrated, open RRP, with a 20-year lead time for dissemination of surgical technique relative to MIRP, remains the gold standard surgical therapy for localized prostate cancer," the... (Science Daily)
Some college stars exceed expectations Oct 15, 2009
Tar Heels freshman defensive end Donte Paige-Moss even received the sites' gold standard -- a five-star rating. Highsmith was one of about a half-dozen players in North Carolina's class rated with two stars. (News & Observer -- Sports)
The gold standard at more than $1,000 Oct 14, 2009 Democracy 2.0 Oct 14, 2009 TPAC presents world-famous Mariachi Vargas Saturday Oct 14, 2009 Gold Has Shown Its Mettle, but How High Can It Go? Oct 13, 2009 Remaking Jesus in their own image Oct 13, 2009 UBS Account Amnesty Deadline Adds Need for Therapy to Lawyer Consultations Oct 13, 2009 An inconvenient admission Oct 13, 2009 Full Story » Oct 13, 2009 The Gold Standard Announces Launch of Mobile Long Island Gold Buying Service Oct 13, 2009 Terps Trek to Georgetown Tuesday Oct 13, 2009 Selecting for BRCA1 testing using a combination of homogeneous selection criteria and immunohistochemical characteristics of breast cancers Oct 11, 2009 Barrett-Jackson confirms Orange County auction Oct 10, 2009 When food doesn't 'SUIT' you Oct 10, 2009 KIRO 7's Michelle Millman: Coping With Chemo Oct 10, 2009 Cancer drug is no different in effectiveness as gold standard treatment for macular degeneration Oct 10, 2009 Reading Festival promoters fined Oct 9, 2009 Marriage At Risk In D.C. Oct 8, 2009 Gene Test Might Predict Tamoxifen's Effectiveness Oct 8, 2009 Surgeons' Unanimous Consensus: Needle Biopsy Is Gold Standard For Breast Cancer Diagnosis Oct 8, 2009 Atlantic Hockey capsules Oct 7, 2009 From Lidge to ledge, closers make playoffs tense Oct 7, 2009 Council members push for openness Oct 7, 2009 Extremely Preterm Infants Receive More Treatments, But Are No More Likely To Survive Than In Previous Decade Oct 7, 2009 New Studies See a Higher Rate of Autism: Is the Jump Real? Oct 6, 2009 Dollar Stores: A Great Price for the Recession Oct 6, 2009 New eateries taking root in W. Phila. Oct 6, 2009 Minimally invasive procedure effective for treating snoring Oct 5, 2009 Examining the most important questions facing Arizona Oct 4, 2009 You Can Thrive! Burlesque Show Celebrates the Girls and the Women Who Are Battling to Keep Them Oct 3, 2009 Confusion is currency of the day Oct 3, 2009 Acorda Therapeutics Fampridine-SR likely to receive FDA approval with REMS/black box label Oct 3, 2009 This one a chip off the old Doc Oct 2, 2009 Comcast & DirecTV Battle at Fair Oct 2, 2009 PAINT THE TOWN PINK: Southcoast Hospitals features digital mammography Oct 1, 2009 Obama to Front Chicago's Olympics Bid Oct 1, 2009 Cal puts focus on USC Oct 1, 2009 G-20 Found `Good Balance' on Banking Regulations, Scotiabank's Waugh Says Sep 30, 2009 AstraZenecas Brilinta expected to get expedited approval with no major label restrictions Sep 25, 2009 Ryan right man at right time Sep 25, 2009 HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy... Sep 25, 2009 Internet meltdown threat: Conficker worm refuses to turn Sep 24, 2009 What The Hell Is Wrong With DirecTV Sep 24, 2009 Our view: Questions for AHFC Sep 24, 2009 Minimal training improves ventilation skills Sep 23, 2009 Windows Upgrades Made Easier Sep 23, 2009 Transocean Ltd. Ranked Among World's Top 50 Companies in Latest Carbon Disclosure Project 2009 Global 500 Report Sep 23, 2009 The Man Who Made Oz Sep 22, 2009 * Economists need to study bubbles, reinvent models Sep 22, 2009 Linda Smith has played a key role in the fight against human-trafficking, child exploitation Sep 22, 2009 Jury Weighs Conflicting Opinions on Link of Zoloft Use to Violence Sep 22, 2009 Real property tax appeals unclear Sep 21, 2009 Cheap, Quick Bedside 'Eye Movement' Exam Outperforms MRI For Diagnosing Stroke In Patients Sep 21, 2009 Terps Play Host to Saint Peter's Tuesday Sep 21, 2009 Bradley: Test ahead in New England Sep 21, 2009 State's child-care system still flawed Sep 20, 2009 DeBartolo to be honored by 49ers over weekend Sep 19, 2009 The Redemption of Keynes Sep 19, 2009 Hopes to stop paving dim as railroad continues RR lot near Spectacle Pond Sep 19, 2009 How would you rate the Jackets performance? Sep 19, 2009 Did Bernanke save us from another Great Depression? Sep 18, 2009 LVMH in the recession: The substance of style Sep 18, 2009 "We need new banks" Sep 18, 2009 St. John Properties to build R&D space at Maple Lawn Sep 17, 2009 The Testing Giants Come Out Swinging Sep 17, 2009 TV doctor makes house calls Sep 17, 2009
Investors setting gold standard at over $1,000 an ounce. Search post-gazette. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Bans 'do not cut abortion rate' Oct 14, 2009
Western Europe is held up as an example of what access to contraceptive services can achieve, and the Netherlands - with just 10 abortions per 1,000 women compared to the world's 29 per 1,000 - is held up as the gold standard. Ensuring women have the means to end their pregnancies is not liberating them. (BBC News -- Health)
gov remains the "gold standard". In the UK, part of the impetus has come from the reverberations of the row over MPs' expenses. (BBC News -- Technology)
Mariachi Vargas has been called the best mariachi band in the world and the gold standard of Mexican folk music. The ensemble s history, musicianship and influence are unparalleled, said Kathleen OBrien, TPAC s president and chief executive officer. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
FILE - In this May 13, 2008 file photo, gold standard bars are piled up at the gold smelter company. FILE - In this May 13, 2008 file photo, gold standard bars are piled up at the gold smelter company Argor-Heraeus in Mendrisio, Switzerland. (ABC News -- Wire)
Jesus was a monarchist who, most likely, favored the gold standard for every nation. Anything that smacked of socialism would have offended His free-market sensibilities -- according to the folks at the right-wing Web site Conservapedia. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
They were concerned about the U.S. abandoning the gold standard in the 70s, Sharp said. Some people were concerned about the Soviet threat. (Bloomberg -- US)
Understand, there has been no greater media proponent of climate alarmism than the BBC. Its reach may not be as great in the U.S., but elsewhere in the English-speaking world it s considered the gold standard for journalism. If even the Beeb is now grudgingly acknowledging that other viewpoints on the issue may have some legitimacy after to deny this possibility in the past then perhaps we can finally have a rational debate. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The Gold Standard Announces Launch of Mobile Long Island Gold Buying Service - Yahoo ... The Gold Standard Announces Launch of Mobile Long Island Gold Buying Service ... With the highest payouts for gold in New York and 6 Long Island locations, The Gold Standard has risen to become New York's #1 buyer of gold and jewelry. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
With the highest payouts for gold in New York and 6 Long Island locations, The Gold Standard has risen to become New York's #1 buyer of gold and jewelry ... Showing commitment to exceptional customer service, The Gold Standard will now make house calls to customers selling broken, old, unused, or unwanted gold for cash ... With over 75 years of history in the jewelry industry, The Gold Standard bases its business on the strategy of providing each customer a safe and secure transaction, friendly... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
THE GOLD STANDARD Maryland established several school-records on its way to the national title last season including wins (23) and shutouts (15) in a season as well as a program-best 16-game winning streak ... SEASON SNAPSHOT After establishing the `Gold Standard' in 2008 with an NCAA National Championship, an ACC Tournament title and a school-record 23 wins and 15 shutouts, the Terps have a tall task ahead to repeat the kind of success they achieved just a year ago. (Umterps.com)
The BRCA1 molecular analysis, including Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA), was considered as the gold standard assay. Results. (BioMed Central)
Barrett-Jackson is the gold standard of collector car auctions, said Steve Beazley, CEO of the OC Fair & Event Center. In addition to being a signature event, we anticipate the auction having a positive impact on our local economy and tourism. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Finally, a double blind placebo-controlled food challenge test - the gold standard for identifying food allergies - was done. In this, neither the doctor nor the patient knew what they were given to eat. (India Times, India)
Dr. Taylor tells me mammograms remain the 'gold standard' for finding breast cancer and DIGITAL mammograms are preferred. Although my breast cancer was not seen on my 2 previous mammograms, mammograms DO show 70-80% of breast cancers. (KIRO TV, WA)
The gold standard of treatment is ranibizumab (Lucentis, Genentech Inc.), which was FDA approved for AMD in 2006 ... "Our study aimed to offer early, six-month results of a randomized, double-masked, single center clinical trial comparing the off-label use of bevacizumab with the current gold standard ranibizumab. With a total of 20 subjects and a 2:1 randomization, early results of this trial suggest that at 6 months, visual outcomes of bevacizumab appear to be no different from ranibizumab,"... (EurekAlert!)
Reading council itself had failed to spot the danger the cables posed and the festival organisers operated to a "gold standard" in navigating their way through a "health and safety minefield", the court heard. Deputy District Judge Peter Greenfield said it was "rather strange neither the council nor the company took the time to realise there might be a hazard from the over-head wires". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Anyone familiar with the historic civil rights movement knows that the right to vote not the right to marry was the gold standard of civil rights privileges. . (Townhall.com)
The findings, which appear in the Oct. 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, could allow clinicians to predict which women will benefit most from the drug, which has been the gold standard of breast cancer care for the past 25 years. Women who do carry the gene variant may be candidates for alternative treatments. (MEDLINEplus)
A panel of leading breast disease specialists recently convened at the International Consensus Conference on Image Detected Breast Cancer III and unanimously agreed that percutaneous needle biopsy represents "best practice" and should be the "gold standard" for initial diagnosis of breast abnormalities. The recommendations were reached after building clinical evidence since the preceeding Consensus Conferences in 2001 and 2005, yet little progress is being made in reducing the number of open... (Science Daily)
The Falcons remain the gold standard. 2. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Rivera, however, remains the gold standard, a sure thing for the New York Yankees for more than a decade. "We have the greatest closer of all time," teammate Mark Teixeira praised. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Among the state's four counties, Bynum and Kawahara speak with reverence of Honolulu's Web site as "the gold standard." There, Internet users can find council minutes, agendas and public testimony, plus MP3 audio files and video recordings of meetings. Honolulu and Maui have been posting their council business online since 2004 and the Big Island since 2000. (Honolulu Advertiser)
"The gold standard for decision making is a collaborative one that balances physician, parent and fetal/infant concerns. Better understanding of the process of this decision making, and its long-term impact on families, is critical to designing further studies with the most clinically relevant outcomes.". Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Experts not involved in the study caution that parent surveys are not the gold standard for measuring the prevalence of a medical condition. "The fact that 40% of the parents reporting that their child had received an ASD diagnosis now say the child no longer met criteria does suggest that there may be over-reporting in this survey," says Craig Newschaffer, a leading autism epidemiologist at Drexel University School of Public Health. (Time.com)
" Despite the risks, many analysts still like Dollar Tree's plan. Though the worst of the downturn may be over, the recovery promises to be slow. "Extreme value is going to be the gold standard as far as the eye can see," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz iates, a retail-consulting and investment-banking firm. In addition, Dollar Tree is well positioned to take advantage of low real estate prices. "Landlords are looking for growing retailers to fill vacant boxes," says Champine.... (Time.com)
Gold Standard Caf;, at 4800 Baltimore Ave., was opened by the owners of the original Gold Standard on the Penn campus. More recently, they owned Abbraccio in University City. (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
In contrast to obstructive sleep apnea, no generally accepted gold standard is available for the treatment of primary snoring. The researchers noted that prior to their study long-term research results surrounding radiofrequency surgery of primary snoring were limited. (EurekAlert!)
The center, an independent non-profit, hired Gallup because of its reputation as "the gold standard" of polling companies, said Lattie Coor, the former Arizona State University president who founded the Center for the Future of Arizona in 2002. Gallup surveyed by telephone a random sample of 3,606 Arizona adults and then followed up with 831 respondents who agreed to participate in an online poll. (AZCentral -- News)
Melissa Gold, Gold Standard PR Email: 703. 599. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
To further illustrate the point, consider that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has repeatedly emphasized that the US emerged from the Great Depression because of (a) a guarantee of retail deposits (think guarantee of the entire banking system in the most recent crisis) and (b) the US going off the gold standard to weaken the US dollar and allow the price level to rise. Our interpretation is that the Fed wants to have a weaker US dollar to induce inflation to allow home prices to rise and... (Asia Times Online)
A REMS consultant, who previously worked at the FDA, said Biogen Idecs and Elans risk management program for its leading multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri is the example the FDA uses as the gold standard for REMS. Biogen has obtained ex-US rights to Fampridine-SR and Elan receives seven percent of royalties on the drug. To minimize the number of seizures that may occur with Fampridine-SR, the company may need to have patient specific procedures in place to prevent things like overdose, a... (FT.com -- Markets)
His 31-point second half remains the gold standard for Boston Shootout guard performances. He was a star at Marquette. (Boston Globe)
This is the kind of customer service that I talked about before which made DirecTV the gold standard of multichannel providers. Farm Aid This Weekend on DirecTV. (Multichannel News)
For so many years film-based mammograms were the gold standard. But things have changed, she said. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
That is why the LA games are considered the "gold standard" for how to run an Olympics. Surely, Chicago can show the same knowhow. (CBS News)
But they remain the conference's gold standard on the field, even if they were less-than-dominant in a 27-6 win over Washington State. USC's success stopping the run looms large, given Cal's desire to lean on Best. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Waugh said the G-20 proposals move toward the gold standard Canadian model. That may give Canadian lenders an advantage over U.S. and European banks, he said. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
It is the first antiplatelet drug to demonstrate it can reduce cardiovascular (CV) deaths compared to the current gold standard treatment, Plavix (clopidogrel) in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Results of the 18600 patient Phase III PLATO trial comparing the two drugs, were revealed at the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona. (FT.com -- Markets)
And now we watch as the Falcons head to Foxborough 2-0 and only a 4 1/2-point underdog against the gold standard of professional football, and we dare to ask: Might they win. And about now, we should take three steps back and try to see the landscape, as opposed, say, to the hair on Michael Turner s chinny-chin-chin. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
In 1931, Britain went off the "gold standard" and look what happened to them. In 1933, the U.S. went off the gold standard and look at what happened to our economy ... AFTER ALL THEY ARE ONLY OUT FOR VOTES AND TO LINING UP THEIR OWN POCKETS WITH NO REGARDS FOR THE PEOPLE AT ALL. A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM HAS TO TAKE SHAPE WHICH IT WILL BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY OUT.SO LETS START OFF BY REPLACING THE GOLD STANDARD.. (The Drudge Report)
"Conficker has proven to be the gold standard for botnets. It's rock solid, it's steady and it has mechanisms built in that have made it impossible for us to actually crack," Joffe said. "As of today we have not been able to crack the cryptography behind it in order to disrupt it by authenticating ourselves as the command and control.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
I have used this very column to praise DirecTV for being the Gold Standard that other companies should try reaching for, however now I can no longer make that recommendation. In fact I will admit as I write this I am a little pissed at DirecTV myself. (Multichannel News)
This very successful and well-run state agency should set the gold standard for landlord and tenant behavior and respect for neighborhoods. BOTTOM LINE: AHFC has to respond better to complaints of disruptive behavior in its public housing. (Anchorage Daily News)
Although intubating the trachea is yet seen as gold standard, this technique is still reserved to experienced healthcare professionals. Compared to bag-valve facemask ventilation, however, the insertion of a laryngeal mask airway offers the opportunity to ventilate the patient effectively and can also be placed easily by lay responders. (BioMed Central)
Window users can only envy Mac owners, since Apple () sets the gold standard for ease of upgrading. Unlike the limited Easy Transfer, Mac's Migration Assistant is a dream. (BusinessWeek)
Since its formation in 2000, CDP has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing essential climate change data to the global market place. Investor CDP represents some 475 institutional investors, with combined assets under management in excess of $55 trillion. (Primezone Releases)
Often read as a political allegory about the move away from the gold standard (you can learn more about that interpretation ), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is more broadly a portrait of a country America promised to be but never became. The book and its sequels offer a recuperative vision, born of intense hopes and disappointments that did not add up in life. (Slate)
Economists such as Barry Eichengreen, Jeffrey Sachs and Ben Bernanke have helped us to understand that these anomalies were the result of individual central banks efforts to stay on the gold standard, causing them to keep interest rates relatively high despite economic weakness. To some, this revelation represented a culminating event for economic theory. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Shared Hope International has been particularly effective in combating human trafficking in part because the charity pretty much is the gold standard among nonprofits in this fight. It gets four stars from Charity Navigator s Guide to Intelligent Giving, which is the Web site s top rating for charities that outperform most others in their cause. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Individual case reports of adverse reactions are not sufficient to establish causation, Jacobs said, as the "gold standard" relied on by the scientific community is a controlled clinical trial where two groups of patients with similar features can be accurately evaluated and monitored for reactions to a drug. "I did not find any study that indicated that Zoloft, or [any drug in its class], in a study, increased aggression," Jacobs said, adding that there was "no indication" that discontinuing... (Law.com)
In property valuations arms length sales transactions of comparable property proximate to the valuation date are the gold standard. But in these troubled times relevant transactions were scarce. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
The project, spearheaded by a Johns Hopkins neurologist in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Illinois in Peoria, found that the quick, extremely low-cost exam caught more strokes than the current gold standard of MRI, suggesting that if further research on broader populations confirms these results, physicians may have a way to improve care and avoid the high costs of MRI in some cases. The idea that a bedside exam could outperform a modern neuroimaging test such as MRI is... (Science Daily)
SEASON SNAPSHOT After establishing the `Gold Standard' in 2008 with an NCAA National Championship, an ACC Tournament title and a school-record 23 wins and 15 shutouts, the Terps have a tall task ahead to repeat the kind of success they achieved just a year ago ... THE GOLD STANDARD Maryland established several school-records on its way to the national title last season including wins (23) and shutouts (15) in a season as well as a program-best 16-game winning streak. (Umterps.com)
The Patriots are the gold standard of 21st Century football. The Falcons are the team that, having worked in two different centuries, still hasn t achieved consecutive winning seasons. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
A growing number of Montana pre-schools, child care centers and in-home facilities are seeking to be accredited through the private National Association for the Education of Young Children, a kind of "gold standard" for quality programs. The state of Montana is also beginning a voluntary rating program for child care providers. (Montana Standard, MT)
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area will televise the Saturday event at the Palace Hotel at 8 p.m. as a special edition of "Chronicle Live," leading into an hourlong program of DeBartolo's induction ceremony called "The Gold Standard" at 9. "I'm really thrilled," DeBartolo said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Keynes would have none of it: He saw millions of unemployed workers, their livelihoods and hopes dashed on an adherence to balanced budgets, the gold standard, and unfettered trade. This is the Keynes most of us know. (BusinessWeek)
According to a Pan Am attorney, the project will be built to a gold standard to protect the water under the parking lot that is slated for paving this week. Railroad VP Cindy Scarano said she is optimistic that the project will comply with aquifer protection standards. (Littleton Independent, MA)
Realized it would be pointless because #1- Miami is the gold standard in college football and while they have been down for 3 years, I had no doubt they would play as well as they did, and, #2- I just can t find myself able to stir up any sort of hate for your program. You re not a giant rival like FSU or VT, two teams we have been playing for a long time, and you are not a team we hate, like the gators. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
What's more, it did so with no help from the Fed, which was determined to let the recession take its course, so as to hasten the restoration of the prewar gold standard. Bernanke, in contrast, has been praised for taking bold, innovative measures to tame a supposedly unprecedented economic collapse. (Christian Science Monitor)
You can argue that there s nothing as good as Vuitton in LVMH s portfolio, says Pierre Mallevays of Savigny Partners, who was formerly director of acquisitions at LVMH, but that simply states the fact that LV s business model is the gold standard of luxury brands; no other brand in the world compares to it. The biggest risk to LVMH is Vuitton, argues Ms Flouquet, since it accounts for such a big proportion of profits; the company depends on it, she says. (The Economist)
The gold standard was one of the causes of the deflation Germany suffered in the early 1930s, for example. You mean that the demise of the Weimar Republic was caused in part by financial factors. (Salon)
Greenebaum and Rose founder Stewart Greenebaum said in a statement the St. John Properties piece of the project will give Maple Lawn the gold standard for R&D/flex space. Most Read Stories. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
"I think we regard this as the gold standard test of its kind. We often talk about setting the standard, and that is what we intend to do.". Potent Threat. (BusinessWeek)
"We present the gold standard of care on the show...we have access to leading experts in their fields.". And, because it tapes close to its airdate, "The Doctors" is able to present the latest information available. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
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