1.   Business planning also provides a rational basis for measuring performance and helps managers to work as a team.

2.   Currently, companies that merge by swapping stock often buy back some stock to lessen the dilution of their earnings per share, a common method of measuring performance.

3.   Does he seem more interested in measuring performance based on output or on the number of hours spent at work?

4.   Missouri is a newcomer to measuring performance, but it is drawing attention for its careful approach.

5.   The new computer uses the Linpack measurement method, the most widely recognized single benchmark for measuring sustained floating-point performance of high-end computers.