In a separate investigation, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it was looking at "inconsistencies with horse passports" at the slaughterhouse.

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Speaking on CNN Friday morning, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said the president had appointed a separate task force to review the accounting standards issues.

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Mr Rose said the iPlayer now supported three separate DRM technologies: Microsoft, Adobe, and the OMA standards for mobiles.

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Make standards high for all students rather than shuffling them into separate tracks.

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While he crusades to hold Wall Street to the highest standards, the evidence suggests Spitzer has toed the gray lines that separate truth from hypocrisy and divide the honest from the unethical.

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The transportation bill, now in its ninth extension, is a critical piece of infrastructure legislation that consolidates more than 100 separate programs into just five major investment categories (for efficiency) and establishes performance standards for these investments (no more "Bridges to Nowhere").

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"As a precaution we have withdrawn four frozen burger products produced by a company in Northern Ireland after a separate batch of meat in another part of their premises was found by the Food Standards Agency to contain horse DNA, " it said.

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Sir Peter warned that having 43 separate police forces in England and Wales and no national headquarters for policing made achieving consistent national standards "all the more difficult".

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