The living standards of the poor in America today are equivalent to the living standards of the middle class 40 years ago, if not the middle class in Europe today.

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Is there an equivalent Book of Standards anywhere in the IT industry that could fix the specs like that of an ASTM A325 nut?

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This is a particular concern inside China, where the 9 percent annual growth recorded for 2008 as a whole, while huge by most nations' standards, was deemed disappointing against an equivalent figure of 13 percent for the previous year.

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In the last few years China has had increases in standards of living and income that are pretty much equivalent to what took 500 years in the West.

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By the standards of 2013, that positively marks it as a small time operation, the corporate equivalent of a three-card monte scheme.

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