• Four hundred primary schools in England deemed to be the weakest are to be turned into academies in a bid to drive up standards, the prime minister has announced.

    BBC: writing

  • It has proposed an amendment to the pact that would replace the legally binding language with a provision that retailers that failed to live up to the standards be publicly expelled from the program.

    WSJ: Wal-Mart Announces Own Bangladesh Safety Plan

  • It will be up to Congress to fund programs to assess the safety of less-lethal weapons and set the standards for using them.

    NPR: Training Faulted in Death by 'Non-Lethal' Weapon

  • The politicians are leaving all the details, including who will do the cutting, how the trading mechanism will work and what the penalties for failure will be, up to the agency that enforces the state's existing air-pollution standards.

    ECONOMIST: Going deeper green

  • It will need to be money which is driving up the quality of standards for the travelling public.

    BBC: News Online

  • The information will be used to drive up standards.

    BBC: NHS Quality Strategy debate

  • Service is not up to the usual standards, and the food can be as delicious as the setting is opulent or as uneven as the service.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Earlier in the day the Chinese delegation moved out of the official hotel after it was said to be not up to their standards.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | G7 ministers meeting in Germany

  • While it might not be up to professional standards, it is free, and this simple application allows the novice to grasp the basics of digital composing.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Click | Webscape

  • Double standards seem to be appearing in the England set-up.

    BBC: Should England send Gough home?

  • "My goal is to ensure that when this book is released it is not only up to the highest of standards, but also that the focus be on the crucial messages it conveys, " Goodall said.

    NPR: Goodall Book Postponed Because Of Lifted Passages

  • As time passes--and as the company has to deal with the requirements of building up its network to meet high-speed 3G standards--the pressure could be too much to bear.

    FORBES: Life With Sprextel

  • The possibility that choice might be the best way of levering up standards is too troubling an idea for most of them to contemplate.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • But Bayer would be foolish to prevent the drug division, which is relatively small by international standards, from teaming up with another firm in some future consolidation.

    ECONOMIST: The chemicals business

  • She repeatedly urged Hasan to reconsider, noting that he would be held to the same standards as all attorneys regarding courtroom rules and military law and be going up against a prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience.

    NPR: Fort Hood Suspect To Represent Himself At Trial

  • First, since medicine advances too fast for any politician to keep up, the reformers will cast in stone a set of standards that will be out of date before they are even passed into law.

    ECONOMIST: Patients or profits?

  • These laws would have to meet minimum standards: proceedings would have to be transparent, and the rules would have to be backed up by sanctions.

    ECONOMIST: The marriage of trade and trustbusting

  • They are unanimous in believing that were the King Edward's girls to be spread around the city's comprehensives, they would not be dragging anyone's standards up they would merely be forced to settle for lower standards themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Grammar schools: Passing the test | The

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