You generally know something about how serious a company or government views a rule by seeing what accountability standard or penalty is imposed for failing to comply with that rule.
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But he is still not certain that this is the time to look back at what, by any standard in popular music, has been a remarkable career.
There is a trick here, which Shelton very nearly pulls off: so artless is her approach, with its ambling conversation and hovering, on-the-spot camerawork, and so generous are her actors (Delmore being the standout) that we wind up half-believing what is, by any standard, a ridiculous conceit.
Emissions obviously being determined by what technology how many people are using to reach what standard of living.
More than half of the investors at the company's annual general meeting, led by Standard Life, an insurer, voted against what they saw as the flouting of agreed performance measures in setting top executives' pay.
Some people have been asking me what I think of the gold standard proposal by Lewis Lehrman, as expressed in his most recent book The True Gold Standard: A Monetary Reform Plan Without Official Reserve Currencies.
The stamp was already valued at twenty cents by Scott's Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, and what I immediately realized was that its worth would only continue increasing (and so rapidly as to become my single most valuable possession) if Alvin was right and the worst happened.
These decisions have to made against a basic standard by looking at the individual circumstances and deciding what is fair in the circumstances.
The reason is that as a new kid on the block, NBNK would be given what's known as "standard status" by the Financial Services Authority, whereas the Co-operative - with its longer history and considerable size in financial services - already has so-called "advanced status".
What is less widely known is that the range of processes covered by standard software is modest.
Free trade raises our standard of living, not by adding jobs, but by increasing what Adam Smith called the division and specialization of labor, making jobs more productive.
If - if - qualifications gained in England are indeed seen as the gold standard, what do they do now to ensure exams sat by pupils in Wales are judged in future to be equally rigorous, equally valued?
This is the first time the EPA has defined a performance standard such that one type of facility can comply only by being something other than what it is.
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Fiat means by decree, and under the gold standard, a given currency is forced on the population by law, regardless of what anyone desires, needs, or judges to be best.
What it actually did was come off the gold standard, thus devaluing the currency by some 25% (deserately needed for Churchill had rejoined it at much too high a rate years earlier) and cut government spending at the same time.
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To answer that, consider what Apple did at its outset to make computing friendly, setting a standard subsequently emulated by competitors.
The framework from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group would allow for a common standard that could be used by cities all over the world as they try to figure out what actions to prioritize in trying to mitigate climate change, Bloomberg said in introducing the commitment.
"I am frankly astonished that something that is common practice in the US and something that has been recommended by the NHS since the mid-Eighties should not be the standard that is going to be followed at what we have been told is a state-of-the-art hospital, " she said.
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