41.   People do not agree, how ever, how to measure teacher performance.

42.   Performance will be measured annually, and parents will be empowered with information and choices.

43.   Retailers measure performance by the amount of sales per square meter.

44.   Sales reports for September, measuring performance for about the first three weeks of the month, are far more anecdotal and at times contradictory.

45.   School performance was measured by test scores and by the evaluations of teachers and parents.

46.   Showing initiative, setting goals, and measuring performance are foreign concepts here, officials and outside consultants say.

47.   Since the beginning of the year, the price-weighted index, designed to measure the performance of the regional economy.

48.   Some of those tests track students from one year to the next, while others measure the performance of students in a given grade each year.

49.   Some politicians now advocate testing as the only objective way to measure academic performance.

50.   That happens often, said Jon Teall, a spokesman with Lipper Analytical Services, a Summit, N.J., company that measures mutual fund performance.