We used a four-scale measure (excellent, good, fair and poor) that is more specific and sets a higher standard than the simple approve-disapprove choices.

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There's also a standard control skin, so game-specific controls aren't required, but a plan for a community portal to allow users to build their own, customized skins is in the works.

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The W3C intentionally made P3P a plain-vanilla standard and asked vendors to develop specific products on their own.

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Since the intangible benefits of buying a hybrid are difficult to quantify, calculating the payback usually focuses on the specific hybrid you buy, sales price differential to a standard car, projected gas costs, maintenance costs and tax rebates.

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But such efforts can fail to uncover some dangers: At least two garment factories at Rana Plaza had passed international labor and safety standard audits under a European trade organization which addressed specific safety concerns at the factories but didn't assess the stability of the building that housed them.

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The experts described a very specific clinical trial that would put Natrecor through the ringer, comparing it to the standard of care in heart failure.

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In recent years, a number of countries have surpassed the U.S. in specific areas, including consumer incomes, standard of living, and health care.

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Xerox claims that its printers, which can crank out 80 pages a minute, can target specific areas of a page for color printing using a material that is cheaper than what is used in standard laser printers.

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For its newly released 2012 Vehicle Health Index, CarMD analyzed more than 163, 000 specific repairs during a one-year period ending Sept. 1, and estimated repair costs, based on several standard sources.

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