Europe should recognize that with satellite navigation, GPS is a de facto global standard.
With the most advanced tsunami warning system in the world, Japan is a global standard setter.
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Business leaders would like to see the corporate tax cut to a "global standard" of around 40%.
More significantly, it may pave the way for filing a single patent according to a global standard.
"Structural integrity during a crash is a global standard for Volkswagen, " the company said in an emailed statement.
But with a global standard and a central operations team doing the monitoring, they can apply a consistent approach.
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When liquid crystal became the global standard, it became more problematic for Sharp to produce both panels and televisions.
But overall, she said, the package would improve EU legislation on banking and represented "a move towards a global standard".
We must fight the scourge of tax evasion by promoting a new global standard for automatic information exchange between tax authorities.
Tony Concil, a spokesman for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) admits that implementing this global standard will not be easy.
Adobe is aiming to become the global standard for all rich media in the "three screen" world - PC, TV, and mobile.
Beyond helping set a global standard, the PMA's members and adopters are working together to create a real-world ecosystem of wireless power.
The Hong Kong bond issue is one of the early steps China has taken to establish the yuan as a global standard.
In recent years, this "EMV" chip technology has become the global standard for credit cards, but the United States has been slow to adopt it.
Hugely, vastly, rich by any historical or even current global standard.
The Trust decided to branch out from its usual territory of measuring energy use and carbon footprints because there was not a global standard on water reduction, he added.
Moreover, although the original accord applied only to banks in big countries, it has become the de facto global standard, making it even harder to rework.
Beyond the safe global standard of jackets or blazers, khaki or gray slacks, and leather shoes, below is a primer to how business casual varies around the world.
The number of American filers for U.S. patents, the global standard for protecting intellectual property, was five times the number of British, French, and German filers combined in 2010.
With so many different technologies being used to varying degrees by airport authorities around the world, getting everyone to adhere to a single global standard is another major obstacle.
"Often, this will mean adhering globally to U.S. regulatory standards, but to the extent another jurisdiction requires higher standards, then that jurisdiction's requirements must shape our global standard, " he wrote.
How will we ensure a continuous increase in the global standard of living, not only for the few at the top, but also for the many working to get there?
From Wi-Fi hotspots and charging stations to alternative energy sources and community art installations, once again New York City proves to be fertile ground for launching groundbreaking ideas that set the global standard.
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Volkswagen said it strives to maintain a global standard for body strength, putting the same number of welds on the same models regardless of where they're produced, and using high-strength steel in Brazilian cars.
Unless Europe mandates use of the American identifier, and that is confirmed by legislation in the 27 member countries, banks will have a difficult business case to undertake the expensive conversion to a single global standard.
Furthermore, we will learn how SAP is partnering with the German Development Organization (GIZ) to support Ghana in meeting the global standard for transparency in the oil and mining industries set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
If you'll recall, G.hn was just recently ratified by the ITU as a new global standard for HDTV home networking, and while it's tough to tell how it'll react to HomePlug AV vying for those same customers, we can already see a battle shaping up.
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He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.
In the aftermath of the SIFMA conference in New York last month, the CFTC will require LEIs, or LEI Lite (some interim identification standard), for swaps reporting by September while the G20 is asking for global participation in developing the global LEI standard and implementing it by March 2013, a somewhat slower schedule.
These accords are a global regulatory standard on bank minimum capital requirements, bank liquidity, and bank leverage.
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