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Project City-Center confirms a cultural and lifestyle revival of city living, reaffirms the growing sophistication and maturity of Las Vegas and sets a benchmark for new growth and exciting new experiences as the city moves into its next 100 years.

On top of declines in the US overnight, losses on UMC further weighed on the benchmark index.

Suburban is the industry benchmark when it comes to capability and the 2007 model affirms the reputation established in 1935, when the first Suburban was introduced.

There seems to be a new benchmark in terms of what we call a blockbuster, ... This year, by the end of the year, we'll wind up with about 17 films over $100 million. But the key to this year's success is that we have five films that have gone beyond $200 million. That's never happened before.

Abercrombie met or was very close to meeting its sales force benchmark for Asians.

A lot of selling came in around 9 o'clock because Freddie Mac priced a large 10-year note, their benchmark security. Right at the pricing of that note, the Treasury market went down and it wasn't able to recover.

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

The US treasuries are declining in price but our comparative benchmark is not moving so the spread is declining.

This benchmark was designed with the input of a dozen or so partners.

It's not his finest hour. The buck stops right there with him. The president did not meet a benchmark that he himself set for crisis leadership.

Follow-through interest in select blue chips and China-related stocks drove the benchmark index up. Funds kept chasing these stocks after the market broke through the 16,000 points level.

Flu seasons change widely in severity. We don't know if this was a severe season or not. This (study) is really a benchmark for future seasons.

Did it feel good? Absolutely. They are the defender, the benchmark and it's a great reward for our team.

We think the benchmark can provide an easy-to-use and visible spot market index for your current contract needs.

Alex Rodriguez

We could win three World Series, with me it's never going to be over. My benchmark is so high, whatever I do it's never going to be enough and I understand that. Maybe when I retire is when all the critics and all that stuff is going to end.

My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

To me, it's more significant that he's in the lower rankings of performance for large blend funds, ... It's more fair to benchmark a fund to that fund's category, not an index.

You can look at different trends to explain it, a .355 on-base percentage being the benchmark for a successful playoff team,

These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

Germany will be the benchmark for the World Cup. I can say without a doubt the level of cooperation is without comparison.

George Town have been the benchmark of the competition but we're just looking to go out and play some solid football early and see what transpires from that.

Consumers are numb to these high prices. Some of this is what the market will bear. Part of the problem with higher prices is we set a new benchmark in our mind and $3 is the new record.

The objective of the operation seems to be to create a few large-sized benchmark bonds and over time buy back the smaller issues.

It's a great honor to be selected by my peers for such an award. Coach Harris was an icon in our sport and set a high benchmark for everyone to aspire.

That kind of decline is a perfect fit with what we've seen in the household survey's measure of employment, ... if not in February, then in future benchmark revisions.

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

It's the benchmark we go by. It's the path forward.

How realistic is it? That's what we're trying to find out. We've already gotten some information about 10 facilities that have been built over the last five or six years and how much it costs, just to give us a benchmark of what we're looking at financially. We're looking at the whole enchilada.

I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.

(This) week is all about the Fed. But we all know they are trying to bring back the benchmark rate to neutrality. They still have a couple more rate increases to go.

The EFI four-stroke segment is still the benchmark of the outboard industry in terms of quality and satisfaction. From top to bottom, there are some outstanding engines being produced in this segment. However, the brands in the DI two-stroke segment have made some substantial improvements in 2005 and they are clearly producing some of the best engines in the industry. We also see a change in that carbureted four-strokes no longer outperform EFI two-stroke outboards as a result of EFI two-strokes improving and carbureted four-stroke engines declining. The gap between the two four-stroke technologies is now the widest we have seen.