But even without this pressure, Chinese officials had reason to question their choice of standard to which to peg their currency.
Of course prosthetics can be designed that would give unfair advantage in competitive sport: attaching wheels, for example, but down the line Herr believes motorized bionic legs will be used in sport and should be allowed, once they are sufficiently advanced to replace the Ossur Cheetah carbon fiber blades that are now the standard choice in Paralympic running.
Upgraders might lament the move from miniSD to microSD, but going forward, it's a good thing -- microSD's clearly the standard of choice for phone memory expansion.
But that's like offering individuals the choice of taking the standard deduction or itemizing on their returns, and then demonizing a subset of people who choose the approach that minimizes their income tax obligation.
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Marino said officers were performing so poorly that he had no choice but to set the standard of 10 summonses and one arrest per month.
Earlier today, a study in Science Translational Medicine proposed that DNA sequencing could become a standard first-choice test for infants in neonatal intensive care units, because a combination of new software and hardware could allow doctors to get results in just 50 hours, answering questions about what is making a baby sick far faster when time is of the essence.
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The conference presented the opportunity to introduce both the idea of choice as the distinguishing factor between standard advertising and content as well as a metric for determining its effectiveness.
Like other OLPC devices, the XO 3.0 is customizable to customer needs -- so you can get the CPU clocked at 800Mhz or 1GHz, a 1500 - 1800 mAh battery, and your choice of a Pixel Qi or standard LCD display.
"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.
For that would suggest that when faced with incendiary charges by a critical regulator, and the potential loss of its licence, Standard Chartered felt it had no choice but to pay up.
Once a standard is set, people have little choice but to use it.
They found that the treatment given was usually influenced by the physician's choice and patient's age, instead of standard factors such as the size of the tumour.
"With UltraViolet, consumers enjoy the flexibility and security of cloud-based entertainment rights combined with the choice-expanding benefits of a widely honored industry standard, " said Mark Teitell, general manager of UltraViolet.
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The company has openly pushed DVB-H for a while now, scoring a huge win when the European Union recently formally ratified the standard as Europe's infrastructure of choice -- but neither carrier rollouts nor burgeoning customer demand have followed suit the way it had figured they would.
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The standard 17-inch wheels would be my choice.
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The argument that gold is the intrinsically right standard, so people do not need any choice in the matter because the government would only be making them do what is best for them anyway, is a philosophical can of worms that ultimately undermines the moral case for free markets.
Although his choice of apparel is off-beat, his songs consisted of standard French romance songs, as you would expect to hear played on an accordion.
Since 1996, members of the compulsory state health-insurance scheme there have had a choice between competing insurers, all of which had to provide a standard package of benefits.
For me, the most interesting part of the conversation came as I gave him one of my standard pieces of advice: exercise tight control over technology choice, and as little as possible over technology use.
In reality, it was precisely because the gold standard was working so well that Nixon felt he had no choice but to abandon it.
He said he thought the drug would be most useful for patients for whom standard treatment had failed and in a "minority" of patients as a first-choice drug.
Endorsed by the 3GPP as the official way to burn wireless rubber in the next few years, LTE is a progression of GSM's UMTS platform, making it an ironic choice for CDMA stalwart Verizon and a huge blow for the CDMA Development Group's competing UMB standard.
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