Hundreds of thousands of new homes have been built over the last two years which have not only greatly improved living standards but also provided jobs and contributed to a boom in the construction industry.
She is married to Scott Cooper, a lobbyist for a nonprofit organization that monitors industry standards, and they have two children.
Currently, our exporters and foreign consumers of these goods have to comply with two different, conflicting set of standards.
In several sectors, ranging from medical and electrical equipment to pharmaceuticals, the two sides have agreed that European organisations can test goods to American standards on behalf of American testing organisations, and vice versa.
By American standards, we could buy two of them, and have enough left over for a Prius, or a trip around the world.
Certainly asset values are a fraction of what they once were but those who knew Japan in the 1980s can testify to the fact that living standards there have increased at least as fast in the last two decades as they have in the United States.
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The two bodies have taken the unusual step of releasing a joint policy statement on standards-essential patents (SEP) as their use in smartphone and tablet court cases, usually to shoo away Apple, has increased.
It now hopes to have standards in place by the end of this year, which would be two-and-a-half years since the commission made its report, and fully eight years since PREA passed.
Other managers, including Robert Horrocks, chief investment officer at Matthews International Capital Management, are increasingly hunting for Chinese small caps, which have been harder hit than larger firms over the past two years as banks tightened their lending standards, but are expected to gain as financing opportunities improve, he says.
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American spacefarers, accustomed to exacting safety standards (Columbia returned despite the fact that it could have functioned safely on its two remaining fuel cells), must find Mir a scary place.
Having come through the financial crisis relatively unscathed, the impetus for raising the standards of financial regulation and corporate governance seems to have ebbed away over the past two years, according to a study released Wednesday.
Two beefburger products withdrawn from sale over concerns they may contain horsemeat have tested positive, the Food Standards Agency says.
Standards in the industry say you have to find at least 20 direct correlations between your two samples to declare them to be the same person.
Probably the two most controversial recruits have been Russia and Croatia, since both still fall far short of council standards over the rule of law, freedom of expression and much else.
More than half of us won't have enough money to maintain our living standards in retirement even if we work to age 65, about two years past the average retirement age, according to various estimates.
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