The 10-year rate is a common benchmark for setting fixed-rate mortgages.

It is probably the most common benchmark for foreign stock funds.

The Pentium architecture typically offered just under twice the performance of a 486 processor per clock cycle in common benchmarks.

Some of the common benchmark competency-based practices in Recruitment and Selection include:

In addition, it is important that tests administered at the state and local level be measured against a common benchmark, like the National Assessment's test.

By comparison, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, a common benchmark for big mutual funds, is down 25 percent.

The most common benchmark for American stock funds, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, returned 3.3 percent during the second quarter.

Whether these common benchmarks are effective predictors is not clear, but they capture accurately how social workers tried to judge the child's circumstances.

"With the blueprint, for the first time there is a set of common benchmarks and curriculum goals to begin working from."

Some of the common benchmark competency-based practices in learning and development are: