Data for 1996 to 2000 was used to benchmark the performance of universities. |
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In February the United States reached a benchmark of 2 million individuals in its prisons and jails. |
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His business acumen has seen the centre firmly established as a benchmark for the industry. |
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We depend on those things, and they set the benchmark for how well we live in this country. |
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I should also point out that the system was far from being stable at this speed, as any attempt to benchmark would result in a system reboot. |
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And from now on, the benchmark that all kickflips will be judged against is the one pulled over those ledges. |
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Now with flawless tight grain kip skin leather and the best Pro Patterns, these gloves are sure to be the new industry benchmark. |
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Most mutual-fund companies offer index funds, so review their fees and ensure that they are aligned with an appropriate benchmark. |
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Her looks are an imperishable benchmark of beauty, her glacial reserve is viewed as a sophisticated enticement. |
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When prices deviate from this theoretical benchmark, money moves quickly to arbitrage away any differences. |
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The benchmark results under load show that the manufacturer's claim is correct. |
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The benchmark run was the actual milk collection and delivery routes used by the cooperative. |
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It is axiomatic that every generation thinks the music of its youth was a benchmark of pop greatness. |
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The year 1931 was a benchmark in the church's history as the first mass in the Malay language was held. |
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The first reading of almost any survey job should be a backsight onto a fixed point of reference, usually a benchmark of some sort. |
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This is a new benchmark for LCD production that competitors will have to scramble to emulate. |
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The new line of three systems sets the industry benchmark with 30 nm sensitivity and throughputs of up to 1,800 defects per hour. |
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It was the blueprint for Beatlemania, and the benchmark for future meshing of musician to movie. |
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What You Waiting For is the benchmark for the album, immediately enjoyable with its fast lyrics and catchy melody. |
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They finished fourth last season and are the benchmark for teams like ourselves. |
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The baseline then serves as a benchmark for comparing the financial implications of alternative plans. |
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The standards provide a benchmark for RN practice and provide support and guidance for nurses in their everyday practice. |
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The GMC should use these same standards and thresholds as the benchmark for revalidation and fitness to practise. |
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However, the Millennium Volunteers initiative, set up by the Government in 1999, has set a new benchmark for youth volunteering. |
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The survey therefore is an excellent benchmark for SME's in this area to compare themselves to businesses in the rest of the country. |
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Severin's 1976-77 Brendan expedition became his benchmark for exhaustive research and methodical preparation. |
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The benchmark in Table 2 is designed to evaluate the performance of a server's ability to run Java applications. |
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The high benchmark of system requirements really pushes a lower to mid-range PC to its utmost capabilities. |
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A benchmark is a survey mark made on a monument having a known location and elevation, serving as a reference point for surveying. |
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The most reliable way to benchmark loans is to compare the TAR, or Total Amount Repayable. |
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The result from one institution compared to a similar site allows managers to benchmark their performance with peers. |
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And we network to get feedback so that we can benchmark our performance, to provide quality assurance to our organisation. |
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We will continue to benchmark our council tax to ensure it remains in line with outer London as a whole. |
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A comparison group was developed to benchmark the level of complications without any intervention. |
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It has been challenging to find standards or other nursing data against which to benchmark this number. |
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Clinical care is of the utmost importance to us and we benchmark our performance against a range of standards with other hospitals. |
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The central bank on Thursday raised its benchmark interest rate for the second straight quarter by 0.125 percentage points. |
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Led by high-technology stocks, the benchmark index continued its rebound to close at 8,824.36, up 282.41 points from Thursday. |
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Just as interest rates change from time to time so, too, does the benchmark rate against which we stress test. |
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No benchmark could ever provide a definitive evaluation system for surround sound. |
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With this kind of success, Chubb went on to become the benchmark in mass-produced locks for 150 years. |
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The standard was created to provide an industry benchmark to ensure clients receive a professional, high-quality service. |
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Physicians and hospitals fear the practice could unfairly penalize practitioners and say there's no way to benchmark quality accurately. |
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Even the effort to produced a commemoratory milestone to this extent, is a benchmark for others to attain. |
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A new Anglo-Dutch benchmark estimate of comparative per capita income for the early nineteenth century would now be very useful. |
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The journalists' confab featured discussions on diversity that included benchmark goals for racial and ethnic parity in newsrooms. |
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Furthermore, Honda has emerged as a benchmark player in the area of flexible manufacturing. |
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Stock market capitalization is an important benchmark, because many cyber-deals are consummated through an exchange of shares. |
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Outperformance of the benchmark was a handsome 7.1 percentage points per year. |
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The students draw a trip line with any stop as the benchmark, which is assigned the coordinate zero. |
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Let's see if I can run the benchmark with my core and memory running 5MHz faster. |
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Remembered as a benchmark of poorness, a level they must not let themselves sink to again. |
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To make these tactical decisions, however, requires having the courage of one's convictions to know what the benchmark for decision is. |
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Debt would be written off or suspended below a particular benchmark and proportionality would be used above the benchmark. |
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Europe's benchmark stock indexes have lagged comparable US measures this year, but they may soon start to pull ahead. |
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Of 97 students who did not meet state benchmark standards, the discriminant function accurately predicted 88 cases. |
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The success of Denmark and other nations gives the Europeans a benchmark against which to measure their efforts. |
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Taking a closer look, every fast-food restaurant points to its drive-through window as the benchmark for its service performance. |
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This is one example of shocking sleazoid cinema that has something profound to say about its subject, and it's the overall benchmark set by this film. |
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We look forward to seeing recompiled applications run through the same benchmark, and word is that these do deliver the promised speed advantages. |
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Available in a limited edition run of 100 deluxe copies and 400 unnumbered editions, Particulars establishes a benchmark by which many future art books will be judged. |
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Taxes are an obvious benchmark, since right now, employed teenagers are literally subjected to taxation without representation. |
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He was a benchmark, a mentor as an artist and as a man, and I just loved him with all my heart. |
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Using the three states with the lowest mortality rate as the benchmark, they determined where the system breakdown begins. |
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They represent a benchmark for what an average, well-educated student on track for college should know. |
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If insurers beat their benchmark by 3-8 percent, they have to split that extra revenue with the federal government. |
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The dashboard and interior trim have been designed to set a new benchmark for the segment in terms of touch and feel quality, adding a new notion of prestige to the C-segment. |
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Agents said the sales have set a benchmark for luxury projects in the Kowloon Station area, as the Harbourside is the first top-end project launched there. |
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He added that local government officials now had a benchmark to govern their behavior and be judged by. |
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Because many tracker funds use the All-Share, and many more benchmark performance against that index, there is often a burst of buying interest in new entrants. |
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Specifically, depending on our benchmark and whether we look at unweighted or weighted alpha, the monthly shortfall ranges from 5.6 to 16.3 basis points. |
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By the benchmark of the Rwandan civil war, it would barely rate a mention. |
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The price for being flexible has traditionally meant a lower standard of living but Payne is raising the benchmark for what defines prefabricated, mobile housing. |
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The pantsuit is a generational benchmark, not just for Hillary, but for all professional women. |
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Our level of screening, police checks and training of adults before we let them work with young people is used as a benchmark by other organisations. |
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If you cannot benchmark your performance against other farmers, budget to monitor and reduce costs, know what borrowings you can service, you are not getting value for money. |
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When Yahoo bureaucracy rules, people die in the health services and the aged in nursing homes are victimised while benchmark payments are pocketed. |
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They have also fettled the suspension, aiming to regain the driving dynamics benchmark which many commentators say was overtaken by Ford's Focus when it first arrived. |
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On positive tip, one recent benchmark in the editorial column has to go to Luke Hayman over at New York Magazine who hires typographers as illustrators. |
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There is no question that this new plant has set new standards in every aspect and will unquestionably become a benchmark for future factories in the future. |
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A diverse range of benchmark wines were lined up to tantalise the group, while the wine specialist and I fielded questions from the savvy and vinously curious participants. |
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In three weeks time, though, there are going to be large changes to the market average, which everyone is trying to benchmark their performance against. |
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If we accept 2hr 10 min as the benchmark for a male marathoner, it is worthwhile considering that in 1987, just two runners raced inside that time. |
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These tests are hence not a good benchmark for these models. |
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PowerMARQ is described as a standard way to benchmark business performance across multiple processes and industries. |
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Survey provides a benchmark to risk and compliance practitioners across both financial and nonfinancial sectors. |
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The test calculations are carried out for the crosswedge benchmark and proved an excellent agreement with the source images method. |
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There are declining amounts of these benchmark oils being produced each year, so other oils are more commonly what is actually delivered. |
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His depiction of human emotion in The Last Supper set the benchmark for religious painting. |
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The document became a benchmark for republicanism and codified constitutions written thereafter. |
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Since 1951, BP has annually published its Statistical Review of World Energy, which is considered an energy industry benchmark. |
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Brent Crude is a major trading classification of sweet light crude oil that serves as a major benchmark price for purchases of oil worldwide. |
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In May 2013, it was reported that readings for CO2 taken at the world's primary benchmark site in Mauna Loa surpassed 400 ppm. |
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The report was intended to be used by environmental organisations as a benchmark and source for policy development. |
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The benchmark was subsequently retained by Austria, adopted by Yugoslavia, and retained by the states that emerged after its dissolution. |
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In 2016, Slovenia adopted a new elevation benchmark referring to the upgraded tide gauge station in the coastal town of Koper. |
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The preceding figure shows the Utah teapot, a popular benchmark for surfaces. The teapot is textured by a random polka-dot pattern. |
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As long as insurers come close to that benchmark, nothing happens. |
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The wages it pays set the benchmark for the rest of the retail sector. |
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Recognized by the DSL Forum, LEA's Independent Test Laboratory stands as France's benchmark for xDSL interoperability testing. |
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During the next year, DMA expects its members to establish internal measurements to benchmark their progress. |
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Individually they set benchmark standards for mechanical typesetting, using iconic letterform designs that remain as popular as ever. |
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This have light meters reading the first time unacceptable and as the benchmark the game. |
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Using this scorecard as a benchmark, TVA will identify and track the best opportunities to reduce pollution, improve efficiency, and cut costs. |
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The Sound Blaster Audigy cards set a new benchmark for PC audio with its completely redesigned Audigy ADVANCED HD audio architecture. |
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Nearly all of the 5,000 people going through the programme have stayed inwork longer than the Government's benchmark 13-week period. |
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Despite the week-long bearish trend, the KSE benchmark closed bullishly on Wednesday, amid hefty speculations on cheap chips. |
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When they benchmark themselves against competitive systems, they often realize their modi operandi are out of date. |
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Fannie Mae, the largest US home funding company, is planning to sell USD5bn benchmark bills on Wednesday in a Dutch auction, reports Reuters. |
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Customer Support Management magazine will publish insightful, fact-based and unique credible analyses of the benchmark data. |
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We challenge users to benchmark their own applications on an InfiniPath cluster and see what the impact of this breakthrough performance means to them. |
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Our journalists adhere to the Editors' Code of Practice, which sets the benchmark for high professional stans dards and is enforced by the Press Complaints Commission. |
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The 2002 Commonwealth Games set a new benchmark for hosting the Commonwealth Games and for cities wishing to bid for them with a heavy emphasis on legacy. |
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County Durham and Darlington NHS FT require benchmarking tools to enable the Trust to benchmark its performance against local, national and international comparators. |
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We aimed to use data from such an audit to benchmark our results against international quality guidelines and to provide individual endoscopists with a procedural logbook. |
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Brent crude is still used today as a standard benchmark for pricing oil, although the contract now refers to a blend of oils from fields in the northern North Sea. |
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Intematix' Cetus E-series sets a new benchmark for lumens per dollar, which will enable our customers to lower their costs and enhance ROI for their end-users. |
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Our journalists adhere to the Editors Code of Practice, which sets the benchmark for high professional stans dards and is enforced by the Press Complaints Commission. |
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Additionally, the portfolio manager can discretionally employ modest leverage, aiming to enhance returns relative to its benchmark and other offerings in this space. |
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Given the differences in glide paths, it is difficult to determine if a particular benchmark will be recognized as a performance measure for the industry. |
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Due credit is given to Theodoor van Erp's sterling efforts that set the benchmark for anastylosis which was subsequently employed with much success at other sites in Java. |
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Nandana was from south India, and his commentary, titled Nandini, provides a useful benchmark on Manusmriti version and its interpretation in the south. |
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Brent is the leading global price benchmark for Atlantic basin crude oils. |
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They are on Forestry Commission land and along with schemes in Wales are regarded as the benchmark by which further trails in the UK should be developed. |
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Best is pleased to publish a series of exclusive stock indices that will provide readers with a useful benchmark for assessing investor confidence in the insurance industry. |
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You may need to power-cycle client and server machines, or unmount and remount file systems in between benchmark runs to ensure that the caches have a cold start. |
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This year the umpires have light meters back and take a reading the first time they deem the light unacceptable and then use that reading as the benchmark throughout the game. |
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In addition to lowered licensing fees, pre-licensing provides exclusive access to the benchmark specifications and early builds including alpha and beta releases. |
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