People are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
But that is why it is so important for them be exceedingly accurate, to rise to the highest levels of those standards.
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Judges rated the town on its levels of crime, hygiene standards and the range of visitor attractions.
For de Waal, these experiments complement research showing that people are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
She denies a series of charges related to alleged failures to ensure adequate nursing staffing levels and appropriate standards of record keeping, hygiene and cleanliness, administration of medication, provision of nutrition and fluids and patient dignity.
According to Jonathan Banks, executive automotive analyst with the NADA Used Car Guide, used-vehicle prices will remain largely at their lofty levels because of looser lending standards, recovery in the housing and construction markets, a gradual decrease in unemployment levels, an increase in supply from booming new-car sales and pent-up consumer demand.
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Scandinavian countries are often cited as examples of how a late start in formal lessons can still lead to high standards and levels of socialisation in later years.
The broad adoption of industry standards and protocols is reducing trade friction while generating new levels of trade activity and information.
In most of the data released Friday the levels of contaminants detected are far below the standards observed by EPA and other U.S. agencies.
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Before it can be released back into the nearby watercourses it has to meet stringent standards, including maximum levels of ammonia, heavy metals and any chemicals that might cause oxygen depletion.
His model predicted that a large number of passengers crowded together, all blathering, sending text messages, or browsing the web on their phones, could produce levels of electromagnetic radiation that exceed international safety standards.
Japan's problem is that it is financing European standards of welfare with American levels of taxes, and has to borrow the rest.
A-levels cannot be cited as evidence of less rigorous standards.
What is striking is that there has been modest reductions in the indebtedness of British households and non-financial companies over the past three years, to 98% and 109% of GDP respectively - which are still high levels of leverage or high debt ratios by historic standards.
One insidious aspect of the decline in lending standards is that, although anyone can assess interest rate levels by glancing in the newspaper or on the Internet, there is no index of lending standards that tells people where lending standards are at the moment compared with historical norms.
Short-term particle pollution measures the number of times in a year when levels spike above healthy standards for several days to several weeks.
Today, economics, the U.S. shale gas reserves, advanced technology, and fuel economy and emissions standards are driving natural gas towards historic levels of market penetration.
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Because the Mercedes-Benz S400 illustrates how mainstream large and midsize cars in the coming years will be able to maintain acceptable levels of performance while garnering improved fuel economy to meet stricter federal standards.
Indeed, federal bank examiners have said they are keeping a close eye on loan underwriting standards, concerned that institutions will take on inappropriate levels of risk as they seek ways to remain profitable in a low interest-rate, difficult economic environment.
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The funding programme, which runs annually from December to November, is split into two levels of funding - Podium and Development - each with strict criteria and standards which must be met in selection and maintained with the support of UKA staff.
Other reasons include the decline in unemployment and the increase in living standards over the period, both factors closely linked to levels of crime.
At home, the central economic objectives of my government are high and stable levels of economic growth and employment, enabling everyone to share in higher living standards and greater job opportunities.
The new rules come after a weekend meeting of a consortium of central bankers, who want to raise capital standards for banks levels in an effort to head off another financial crisis.
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With the launch of Compassion in Practice - a three year strategy for nursing - Ms Cummings will call for new ways of measuring patient feedback, getting trusts to review their culture of care and their staffing levels and explaining in public how they impact on standards.
Ofsted said the inspections were being carried out to find out why there were differences in standards between local authorities with similar demographics, such as population and levels of deprivation.
Nor have stifling safety standards that continue to emphasise detailed design specifications rather than set minimum levels of performance and then leave the methods of achieving those performance targets up to the designers.
Toxic chemicals have been detected at levels exceeding federal safety standards in the soil and air around the still-burning rubble of the World Trade Center, according to documents compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Another side effect of the standards movement in the United States has been greater attention to educational achievement levels in other countries.
Although labour costs are low enough for them to employ cheap workers instead of expensive robots at many points on the production line, average productivity is staggeringly low: a quarter of American levels, although the newest plants (such as Fiat's) approach world standards.
Speaking on the BBC Today programme, Sir Michael said there was a "huge difference in school standards between local authorities, " even when comparing areas that had similar populations and levels of deprivation.
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