1.   Governments measure inflation by going shopping.

2.   Analysts said the biggest gain in the producer prices since January was due mostly to an annual adjustment in the way the government measures auto prices.

3.   Because the government measures production when calculating the size of the economy, a decline in inventories acts as a drag on growth.

4.   Bernardoni also said a review is needed of how the government measures unemployment, the newspaper said.

5.   A lot of Americans, according to the commission appointed by Congress to examine how the government measures inflation, have been getting away with murder for decades.

6.   About one-quarter of the new forecast was because of changes in the way the government measures inflation.

7.   Second quarter numbers are closely watched as they give an indication whether government measures to curb property speculation in May have taken effect.

8.   The arrests bring into question how the government measures economic performance.

9.   The government then measured whether people could get a concentration of the drug in their blood equivalent to what worked in the animals.

10.   The government measures the unemployment rate for three-month periods, using household surveys.