In the jungle of the financial world, there are few true blue gentlemen of ideal temperament and standards, whose word you can trust.

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We had all gone to that party with a common objective -- bring chocolate, eat chocolate and be happy -- only to be separated by our different interpretations or standards for what constituted "ideal" chocolate.

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Even by 1800s standards, Jim Pud Galvin didn't have the ideal body to be a pitcher.

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The open standards of the web and its global reach make it an ideal platform for doing business in new ways.

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Pfizer and Quintiles, two American health-care firms, find India's crowded hospitals ideal venues for conducting cheap trials of new drugs (strictly to international ethical standards, they insist).

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ZigBee is good for low-speed, low-power transmissions (automated meter readings, for example), while ultrawideband is ideal for linking up home-entertainment devices, though it is currently mired in a standards war (see article).

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