The latest Audi sculpture to
make headlines measures 33.5 tons and weighs close to 10 tons.
Not exact matches
The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report (pdf - h / t to Kady O'Malley) that
makes note of the distinction between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI), and shows that by the latter
measure, the fourth quarter of 2008 was even more dreadful than the GDP numbers that
made all the
headlines.
According to Okonjo - Iweala, «People are happy to see the symptoms being taken care of, punitive
measure, you know it
makes big
headlines when people are hauled off to jail and the media blasts the story, which is good, there ought to be consequences and punitive actions but it's not enough.
This article appeared in print under the
headline «Thermometer to
measure coldest thing ever
made»
So it is no accident that the release of the third and final round of reports from the Gates Foundation's
Measuring Effective Teachers project was greeted with the following
headline in the Washington Post: «Gates Foundation study: We've figured out what
makes a good teacher,» or this similarly humble claim in the Denver Post: «Denver schools, Gates foundation identify what
makes effective teacher.»
As school cheating scandals continue to
make headlines, the need for secure testing
measures has never been greater.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word - for - word copy of the ALEC «model» Right to Work Act, following on the heels of Michigan and other states that have taken up the ALEC - inspired anti-union
measures in recent years.
Topics like station density, dock siting and data collection standards may not
make for flashy
headlines in the mainstream media, but they are important to equity as to other
measures of success.
Meanwhile,
headline - grabbing proposals such as a ban on diesel cars and vans by 2025, a levy on disposable coffee cups, and a Zero Carbon Britain Act are precisely the kind of
measures that prove popular before being shamelessly nicked by larcenous political rivals with the power to
make them happen - yes, Prime Minister, we're looking at you.
The same country that has
made headlines for
measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.
The slim design grabs
headlines but doesn't
make a big difference in real - world use, and the off - centre style helps and hinders in equal
measure.