In a preview earlier this month of its future energy needs, ERCOT predicted that it would not meet its reliability standards by 2009.

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Congress passed a major energy bill that included subsidies for alternative and renewable fuels, loan guarantees for clean tech and reliability standards for utility companies.

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But because the NRC defines an aircraft attack as a beyond-design-basis event, it did not require that this equipment meet high quality and reliability standards, or be hardened to withstand other potential threats, such as natural disasters.

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In particular, the BPA has yet to offer a viable alternative to the rolling wind outages strategy, which would have ensured the grid complied with federally mandated reliability standards and protected salmon populations from the anticipated flood of freshwater.

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The monitoring results showed all Metro, NIR and Ulsterbus services exceeded their standards for reliability and punctuality.

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Of course, like other central banks, the Federal Reserve continues to monitor systemically important payment and settlement systems and to compare their performance with international standards for reliability, efficiency, and safety.

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Faced with a looming deadline and terrible data, Mr. Greenberg suggests, the DSM directors did what any reasonable, self-protecting institution would do: They lowered the statistical criteria for acceptable standards of reliability and turned defeat into victory.

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Their success proves, if nothing else, that Russian consumers are as shrewd and sceptical as any other country's consumers: they are not arbitrarily prejudiced against Russian manufactured goods, but they demand international standards of performance and reliability from the products they buy.

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His aim has been to run a low-cost airline with high standards, both in terms of cleanliness and reliability.

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This means the control systems and the reliability of technology in police labs do not have to meet the same stringent standards as their private counterparts.

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