Fortune ranks companies by revenue, a system that has long drawn criticism from those who say a company's market value is a better measuring rod than its sales.
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The thing about anti-Semitism is that " unfortunately it still becomes the measuring rod of what is a healthy society, " said Abraham Foxman, the league's national director.
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Loeb said that static electricity, faulty wiring, a bad fuel pump or fuel measuring rods could have ignited fuel vapors in the in the tank of the Paris-bound 747.
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The pieces were being examined Thursday in a Washington laboratory to see if low-voltage wiring in either measuring rod could have somehow ignited vapors in the tank, the official said.
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Climatic conditions were responsible for the destruction of most of the evidence, however, a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods have yielded convincing evidence of early cartographic activity.
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The measuring rods _ which allow the pilot to know the amount of fuel in the tank _ carry a minuscule amount of electricity, incapable of igniting vapors on their own.
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:: As one of the editors involved on the Talk : Measuring rod discussion, I got tired of dealing with the relentless supply of fringe that was put forth and bowed out.
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For example as per Relativity theory, your measuring rod shrinks in the direction in which the earth is moving in space, but not at right angles to it where it remains unshrunk.
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But many important items remain missing, including a small fuel pump and some fuel measuring rods from the center tank, any of which could have produced a spark and ignited fuel vapors.
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Not so says a third member, as per relativity an observer will not find any contraction of measuring rod in his own system, irrespective of the value of his uniform velocity in space.
