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meas·ured
/ ˈmezhərd/
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adj.
having a slow, regular rhythm:
he walks with confident, measured steps.
∎
(of speech or writing) carefully considered; deliberate and restrained:
his measured prose.
DERIVATIVES:
meas·ured·ly
adv.
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Measure 49's promise of reform leaves many landowners skeptical.(A-Section)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 10/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...husband, Robert, to be the kind of people Measure 49 was meant for. They've spent hundreds...development rights under the 2004 initiative, Measure 37, but so far to no avail. And they...retire to some day. "On the surface, Measure 49 would fix our problem," she said...
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Measures weigh down fall ballot
Newspaper article from: The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.; 7/8/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...both sides of a measure. Alan Zaremberg...some of the tax measures pit different...funded by the measure. But the chamber opposes those measures, as well as...infrastructure bond measures that were part...a fourth tax measure, Proposition...
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Measures affecting businesses dominate local ballots. (Up Front).(school bonds and elections Los Angeles)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...tougher challenge: Measure EE, a parcel tax...other school funding measures, which all go towards...host of contentious measures. Garnering the most attention is Measure JJ, the first in...cities have placed measures on the ballot to...taxes. In Gardena, Measure L would increase...
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Measures: More failing than passing
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 11/8/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...results showed San Mateo Union High School District's Measure M, which asks for a whopping $298 million for school...made some in the community leery about supporting the measure. Measure I, which would provide crucial funds to restore or...
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Competing measures eye growth
Newspaper article from: The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.; 10/9/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...LINDA - Two competing ballot measures expected to shape development...Save Loma Linda is pushing Measure V, an initiative that places...sponsoring a competing proposal, Measure U, which aims to preserve...If both proposals pass, the measure that gets the most votes becomes...
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Measures that matter: How to fine-tune your performance measures
Magazine article from: The Journal for Quality and Participation; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...so you can hone in on the measures that really matter. A. Streamline measures. Writer Henry David Thoreau...heard the term "performance measure," but he was on to something...invaluable in crafting performance measures. Useful simplicity is the...
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Measures: Some get big bucks, some don't.(Elections)(Five ballot issues account for 94 percent of the campaign contributions)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 10/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...slate of ballot-measure campaigns are falling...disclosures. Of the 10 measures on the Nov. 7 ballot...campaign to defeat the measure collected $706...030. The other measures, which would require...Oregon's ballot measures. The figures are...6 to Sept. 21: Measure 39 (condemnation...
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Measures would curb state spending.(Ballot Measures)(Spending limit: Advocates disagree on the short- and long-term impact for Oregon)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 10/21/2006; 700+ words
; ...weighty decision when they vote on Measure 48: Should state spending go on a severe diet? If the answer is yes, is Measure 48 the self-help way to a lean...programs to campus construction? Measure 48 would limit spending from all state...
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Measures and Probabilities.
Magazine article from: Journal of the American Statistical Association; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Quasi-measures and measures on semirings are...and the Lebesgue measure on an interval is...convergence in measure, uniformly integrable...integrable functions for measures on semirings, Radon...measures and product measures, Fubini's and...theorems, the Lebesgue ...
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Measures 46 and 47: No.(Editorials)(Political spending reforms marred by complexity)(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 10/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...nuts and bolts of a measure, vote "no." That...initiatives embodied in Measures 46 and 47, we aren...nine-page text of Measure 47 in the Voters' Pamphlet...petitioners for the measures, Rep. Peter Buckley...that a provision in Measure 47 that caps the political...
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measure
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...cost-cutting measures children were evacuated...a precautionary measure. ∎...is an obsolete measure of length tables of weights and measures. ∎...now tread we a measure! 5. ( measures ) a group of rock...
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Productivity Concepts and Measures
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management
...Productivity Concepts and Measures Productivity is an overall measure of the ability to...decision. Labor-based measures do not include mechanization...partial-factor measure options could appear...other partial factor measures include capital productivity...
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weights and measures
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...particular weights and measures. Accordingly, Edinburgh...keep the ell for linear measure, Linlithgow the firlot...became known as imperial measure. More precise instruments...of both weights and measures. While many attempts...metric for imperial measure, the former, though...
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Central Tendency, Measures of
Book article from: Mathematics
...number is called "a measure of central tendency." Three such measures are commonly used...What are the measures of central tendency for these data? To measure the mean, think...on the Mean While measures of central tendency...The mean is the measure of central tendency...
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Weights and Measures
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Weights and measures throughout Europe during the early modern period were characterized by complexity and confusion and dominated by customary practices. Numbering in the hundreds of thousands, they...
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