In May of 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board amended the standard Lehman had manipulated.
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That represented a departure from the "two-corner" standard the board had been using.
The board Sunday reversed itself and adopted the broader standard after its attorney, a registered Republican, advised the board the "two-corner" rule would probably not withstand a legal challenge.
Via the integrated on-board charging componentry and the standard Porsche Universal Charger (AC), the battery can reach full charge within approximately two and a half hours when connected to a 240V power source.
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Rather than improving the quality of care, the board will have to make standard line item cuts that reach annual targets, which will reinforce rather than fix systemic problems and create unsustainable savings.
There's no question that car companies have woken up a bit in recent years -- iPod integration and Bluetooth support is nearly standard across the board, but only standouts like Audi and Tesla have bothered to truly push the infotainment envelope.
As participants in any given activity improve across the board, says Mauboussin, the standard deviation shrinks.
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Debates about how to cut spending tend to get stuck in a sterile argument about whether it is best to dictate a standard reduction across the board and tell departments to get on with it (as happened in Sweden), or to pick on particular areas (as in Canada).
In the how-strangely-familiar vein was a game that featured movable pieces shaped like the standard ones used in myriad board games of today, i.e.
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The air resources board adopted a low-carbon fuel standard to carry out the legislation, but a judge blocked the state from enforcing the standard last month in order to allow lawsuits that challenge it to proceed.
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The idea for a tighter standard is part of a safety board initiative outlined in a staff report and approved by the panel to eventually eliminate drunk driving, which accounts for about a third of all road deaths in the United States.
Dr Harrington says he believes that the health board is making "honest progress" toward reaching their standard targets.
SEC, pointing to the bill's provisions on non-audit services, audit standard-setting and the greater distance of the board from the accountants.
"The introduction of new operators for some of the UK's key airports will give consumers greater choice and in turn should raise the standard of service within all UK airports across the board, " he said.
On its website, Virgin Trains warns travellers they will be charged an excess or penalty fare if they board a train without a ticket or attempt to change from standard to first class without a first class ticket.
More than 100 countries have adopted the .05 alcohol-content standard or lower, according to a report by the board's staff.
Yet ICBC has limited influence with Standard Bank, with only a couple of directors on its board.
"It (the SNS situation) might make us slightly more nervous in terms of valuations and what we would be willing to pay for Dutch bank sub debt, but it hasn't changed our outlook across the board, " said Andrew Fraser, fixed-income investment director at Standard Life Investments Ltd.
So when a highly prized teenager without enough money to pay for expenses beyond tuition, room and board and books, he and his parents cannot rely on a uniform standard across the 120 Division 1 FBS schools to determine which school offers enough to cover the full cost of attendance.
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These functions work alongside the on-board dual-band wireless as well as the newest Bluetooth 4.0 standard.
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Nawaz Sharif recruited Moeenuddin Khan, a former Standard Chartered Bank official from Hong Kong, to run the Central Board of Revenue.
The Financial Stability Board, which co-ordinates the G20's financial policies, has asked standard-setters and regulators to find ways of yanking ratings out of rules on bank capital, fund holdings, margin agreements and so on.
Markus Brunnermeier of Princeton University, who is on INET's advisory board, is trying to incorporate a richer model of financial breakdowns into a fairly standard macroeconomic model with the help of Yuliy Sannikov of the University of California, Berkeley.
Standard Bank has 30 bankers in Beijing now, as well as a main board director in an office close to ICBC's, who help clients of the Chinese bank interested in expanding in Africa.
While the study suggests that confidence in the standards will improve with familiarity, as investors and analysts educate themselves the debate will move to the standard-setting process as well as the governance of the International Accounting Standards Board.
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In spite of renewed calls for regulatory measures, OSHA's Mr. Barab said it will be years before the agency settles on a new combustible-dust standard, a key regulatory measure recommended by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a separate government agency.
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"The board thinks there is an overwhelming logic for demutualisation and would like members to support it, " a Standard Life spokesman said.
In addition to Coca-Cola, other big names that have expressed an interest in listing on the international board include HSBC, the New York Stock Exchange, Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Siemens, Unilever and Standard Chartered.
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