The ministry said local municipalities will be responsible for carrying out testing and that any item measuring above the set standard will not be permitted to be sold.
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The island nation uses 4, 500 BTUs per U.S. dollar of gross domestic product, a measure known as "energy intensity, " the world standard for measuring how efficient an economy is at using energy.
For his part, Myhrvold simply tosses out those standard ways of measuring returns.
Most chocolate isn't labeled with milligrams of flavanols and there's no industry or scientific standard yet for measuring flavanols in chocolate.
Different cities got assigned the same ad but in differing volumes of gross ratings points, the standard unit for measuring advertising saturation.
The goal of the exercise was to reduce the ratio of debt to Gross Domestic Product (a standard way of measuring red ink) to 60 percent.
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"If that's the standard by which we are measuring success or core principles, then, let's face it, we will never get anything done, " he snapped.
He's measuring -- he's taking one standard and applying another to get a figure to make a political point.
When companies abandon their perfectionism and begin setting more realistic goals, they need to make sure that they are measuring themselves by external benchmarks, rather than by some internal 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.
Standard seismic exploration typically involves setting off an explosion, then measuring the passage of its shock wave through the ground.
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