Additional factors are low unemployment, great social standards and a growing economy in the global recession.
Ms Joly lamented the fact that the agreement contained no reference to environmental and social standards.
The wife's mission, apart from monitoring the servants, making useless beaded objects and keeping up social standards, was to ensure that her husband was untroubled by domestic matters.
While some Asia-based airlines openly embrace glamour in the cabin, most U.S. and European airlines long ago altered such strategies to reflect shifting social standards and more severe legal restrictions.
The WHQS was introduced by the Welsh government in 2002 to help improve social housing standards.
Social-media issues are getting more attention from medical schools, which are starting to teach about social-media standards and regulators.
Europe, reluctant to pay more or to trade freely with countries with lower social and environmental standards, may counter with threats of transition periods even longer than those for Spain and Portugal.
Apple is committed to ensuring the highest standards of social responsibility wherever our products are made.
They have set out to create a new set of standards in social search and global trade of knowledge.
Solely giving away a percentage of profits as an after-thought is not enough to meet her standards for social entrepreneurship.
"Universities have not set the highest standards for social work, " he said.
There is relatively little knowledge in terms of international standards for social compliance and there are currently no SA8000-certified factories in Myanmar.
This might include by mandating social performance through environmental standards in real estate, or by using tax credits to favor subsectors like affordable housing.
"Apple is committed to ensuring the highest standards of social responsibility throughout our supply chain, " Apple said in an e-mail reply Wednesday to the organizations making the allegations.
The Activity Streams Project is being implemented in two ways: by extending the Atom Syndication format and by adding a JSON-based format to the Open Social 2.0 standards.
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An Indian restaurant owner claims an "untrue and misleading" social media campaign over hygiene standards is damaging his Norfolk business.
We also continue to examine the way that statistical evidence is used in government policy making - or not, and conclude that quite often the evidence is as likely to give as much weight to the views of the bloke in the pub as to the standards expected by social science.
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Another 48% say it includes the management of governance issues (such as complying with regulations, maintaining ethical practices, and meeting accepted industry standards), and 41% say it includes the management of social issues (for instance, working conditions and labor standards).
MPs also voted down Labour's plans to introduce minimum standards for water company social tariffs by 1 April 2013.
To judge all social networks by Facebook and Twitter standards is to ignore the future success of tools that are built for a completely different use.
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The only true way to connect across all these is to have standards that interface across social networks: the one you run inside your company, the ones you use on the Web, the walled garden ones you use for specific activities, etc.
Michael Porter, a Harvard professor who has become the region's economic guru, peddles the comforting notion that Central America may be able to by-pass the sweatshop stage of development and leap quickly from poverty to northern standards of productivity, social protection and environmental sensitivity.
To what extent do the media comply with the professional and ethical standards while reporting for different social and cultural groups?
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Look closer, and who but the state can provide the necessary rules for trading standards, the environment, social rights and so on?
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Although the social Web is swinging back more to proprietary standards (e.g. facebook) as companies vie for control, we still need open standards for all for it to work well.
In schools, and now in social services, systematic inspection seems to raise standards, and to counteract the assumption that a lack of taxpayers' money is all that is wrong with public services.
Packed with anecdote and detail, it is a thoughtful, strongly felt study of what he believes are France's ills: a melancholy list that includes social division, widespread corruption, falling school standards and an overweening state.
Google executives say Buzz will comply with all the technical standards that go into building the social Web, presumably so that as much information as possible can flow in and out of Buzz from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
Later the minister was questioned on the Scottish Social Housing Charter , which sets out the minimum standards for landlords.
If you have high ethical standards, in-line with the social platform of superstar Angelina Jolie, which clothing brands should you buy?
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