measure up

Continuing with the toughness theme, Cronin compared playing Arizona to “World War III,” “a bloodbath” and a fight that would let his players know how they measure up against another heavyweight team.

The veteran character actor Michael Shannon is adequate in the part, but even among today’s superstars few measure up to Tracy, and Mr. Shannon is not a superstar.

His first job’s pay, at $26,000, didn’t measure up to what his friends were making, he says.

But it isn’t yet clear that the summit’s concrete results will measure up to that high standard.

It also remains unclear how Intel’s latest chips will perform in the real world, or how they will measure up to those coming out of TSMC’s factories.