They agreed to harmonise their economic statistics and set common targets for such things as inflation and public debt.
And because of these efforts, there will be a set of common standards that any state can adopt, beginning early next year.
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Right now, Congress can pass a set of common-sense jobs proposals that independent economists tell us will boost the economy right away.
They have also set out common electoral standards which demand, for example, that independent observers be welcomed before and during any national vote.
There was a fundamental disagreement about whether we should set some common sense rules of the road to protect American families and small businesses from insurance company abuses.
The most successful companies, we found, are those that focus on a particular, specifically aligned set of common and distinct capabilities that enable them to better execute their chosen strategies.
If you go back on average 1.77 times further again (35 generations) everyone in the population will have exactly the same set of common ancestors (although they will be related, of course, through different routes in all the different family trees).
Handling each of these transitions separately without a set of common standards and best practices not only costs us valuable staff time it also poses a burden that can deter contractors from competing for our business and wastes millions of taxpayer dollars.
The Affordable Care Act forces insurance companies to play by a new set of common sense rules, prohibiting them from dropping your coverage if you get sick, billing you into bankruptcy through annual or lifetime limits, and, soon, discriminating against anyone with a pre-existing condition.
Each project is a collection of services and resources with a common set of team members and billing information.
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But In my view, this common set of APIs needs to evolve for Hadoop to better serve its market.
Some think students should be taught a common set of concepts and tested frequently to make sure they've absorbed them.
Forty-eight states have now joined a nationwide partnership to develop a common set of rigorous, career-ready standards in reading and math.
Whitehall departments could set up "common spending policies" and share office space, as part of a "third generation of changes in public services".
By moving to a cloud model, companies benefit from using a common set of standards to connect different collaboration tools and applications from different vendors.
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First, as the weaker partners in the trading system, developing countries benefit the most when the major trading powers play by a common set of rules.
In the collegiate scene, we're able to deal with that pretty effectively because we have a common set of athletes running in certain positions on the relay.
It's how it largely completes what Lion started, bringing a common set of features and apps to the Mac, iPhone and iPad and using iCloud to tie them all together.
Until regulators agree on a common set of sufficiently high standards banks will seek cover under the thinnest regulatory blanket and lobby to make sure their tails wag the regulatory dogs.
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The pilot is being implemented to test and validate birth record verification processes and to develop a common set of standards that states can use during the driver's license issuance process.
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But the biggest difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that the Tea Party is bound by a common set of values based on freedom, responsibility and property rights.
With more than 175 member companies around the world, The Green Grid seeks to unite global industry efforts, create a common set of metrics, and develop technical resources and educational tools to further its goals.
The purpose of the provision is both to unify POWs under a common set of guidelines but also to articulate to the enemy that our men and women in uniform will not willingly provide intelligence information.
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Earlier this month, Google pushed the "everyone is welcome" attitude to its extreme with OpenSocial, a partnership of social networks that will let developers create a common set of applications to be used across many sites.
It encompasses our national security interests, our strategic interests, but most importantly, the bond of two democracies who share a common set of values and whose people have grown closer and closer as time goes on.
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The new investors may buy convertible preferred securities, that is, bond-like equity with an option to change to a set number of common shares at an established price and at an exercise date in the future.
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And so if we can create a system in which everybody is playing by a common set of rules, everybody knows what those rules are, then I think U.S. workers and U.S. businesses are going to excel.
The goal was to establish and encourage the adoption of a common set of standards that would bring a 3G-like end-user experience to Wi-Fi by facilitating an automatic network discovery, selection and authentication of carrier-operated Wi-Fi networks.
What is clear that regulation will need to be as cross-border and connected as the industry it is regulating, but that finding even a common set of standards that can still allow for national implementation will be difficult enough.
The Justice Committee also took evidence from former cabinet secretaries Lord Turnbull and Lord Butler, who said political parties should agree to a common set of principles setting out the constitutional conventions that would apply in the event of a hung parliament.
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