Which gives tens of thousands of companies barely a year to figure out some sort of nondiscriminatory alternative standard.
It will be interesting to see whether some European states or EU officials try and develop their own alternative standard with Europe-wide legislation.
Sony is currently locked in a battle with Toshiba, which, despite helping to develop the Cell chip, is pushing an alternative DVD standard.
Makers of fixed-wing aircraft are also looking at diesel engines, in small planes at least, where they show promise as a serious alternative to standard piston engines, which run on a high-octane form of petrol.
We are trying to create a reasonable alternative to the standard emerging market mutual fund product.
Streaming has officially made the jump from a lonely obsession carried out with a laptop and headphones to the standard alternative to cable TV, viewed on the living room TV like everything else.
Observers had said Capriles, 40, represented a moderate alternative to Chavez, the charismatic standard-bearer of the Latin American left.
Wi-Fi--known among techies as 802.11, a reference to its underlying technology standard--is an alternative means of Internet access.
On October 18, 2005, Geithner provided the standard, enlightened view on alternative investment funds, while serving as President of the Federal reserve Bank of New York.
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Something you would easily conclude is an attractive (and portable) alternative to sugary sodas and coffee (the standard fare).
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The fundamental reason that the two-theater-war standard still survives is because no credible alternative has ever been proposed.
The alternative is the industry's home-grown accounting standard, which is called Embedded Value (EV).
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In addition to the standard news feed, users can select other alternative feeds.
The alternative is the industry's home-grown accounting standard, Embedded Value (EV).
SpyderLynk, for instance, has developed Snap Tags, an application-free alternative to a 2D mobile barcode that works with either a standard or smart phone.
An alternative to running two standards around would be to limit the new standard to a few markets, such as the U.S. where the DTCC launched a pilot with the ISO 20022 message last year.
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We want to set a standard that says by 2015, 100 percent of cars, alternative fuels.
The only proven alternative to a global financial system without reserve currencies is the international gold standard.
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You might think the views of Greg Mankiw, Robert Barro, Scott Sumner, or George Selgin are wrong, but at least they understand standard macroeconomic concepts and have a coherent story about why they favor alternative models.
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But Tasers have become standard police equipment in the UK and are regarded as a less dangerous alternative to guns.
An alternative policy, supported by opposition parties, would be to improve the facilities and standard of teaching in existing schools.
The renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandates that a portion of the fuel supply be composed of an alternative fuel, in this case advanced biofuels (similar to the RFS included in the US Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which gradually phases in biofuels over 15 years).
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