The findings are invaluable to business owners and policy- makers in our communities. They use the data to evaluate consumer needs and track changes in consumer spending.

It's clearly not an appropriate way to conduct the public's business. The public can't evaluate if the government is doing a good job in the selection process if it only knows the winner.

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.

At this point, he has no intention to resign. We'll just have to evaluate that day to day,

Moving forward, we'll continue to evaluate each subsidiary company in line with our larger business goals to reach market leadership and profitability and if necessary, effect further mergers, consolidations or divestitures to accelerate the achievement of these goals,

On future business, we evaluate all suppliers on the same basis - technology, quality, cost and supply. Everybody has the same chance to perform under these measurements and see how they perform on the scorecard.