measure
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Jim Mangia, the chief executive of St. John’s Community Health who helped craft the measure, summed up the campaign as “grueling and expensive.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The CPI is a measure of how much prices have risen in a given month compared to the same month a year prior.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The Trustees measure the program’s long-term shortfall as a share of all the wages it taxes.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Prices excluding food and energy categories—the so-called core measure economists watch in an effort to better capture inflation’s underlying trend—rose 2.9% on the year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
By the 1700s, women divers from Jeju and surrounding islands outnumbered their male counterparts, due in great measure to the fact that so many Korean men had died during wars or deep-sea fishing accidents.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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