The National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, which enforces the settlement, can't point to any specific standard in the 88-page agreement.
But the National Care Standards Commission, which regulates care homes, admits there's no specific standard or regulation about treatment of people with the bug.
We used a four-scale measure (excellent, good, fair and poor) that is more specific and sets a higher standard than the simple approve-disapprove choices.
In recent years, a number of countries have surpassed the U.S. in specific areas, including consumer incomes, standard of living, and health care.
The W3C intentionally made P3P a plain-vanilla standard and asked vendors to develop specific products on their own.
We see the standard being expanded horizontally to address the specific needs of new markets such as energy efficiency, in-car networking, data-center networking and content delivery.
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There's also a standard control skin, so game-specific controls aren't required, but a plan for a community portal to allow users to build their own, customized skins is in the works.
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Since the intangible benefits of buying a hybrid are difficult to quantify, calculating the payback usually focuses on the specific hybrid you buy, sales price differential to a standard car, projected gas costs, maintenance costs and tax rebates.
But such efforts can fail to uncover some dangers: At least two garment factories at Rana Plaza had passed international labor and safety standard audits under a European trade organization which addressed specific safety concerns at the factories but didn't assess the stability of the building that housed them.
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State corrections officials said Thursday they could not discuss specific inmates' care but that offenders generally receive services consistent with the standard of care in the community.
The most important aspect in assessing any cybersecurity program is to determine whether specific activities have been undertaken instead of focusing on which best practice or standard is followed.
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Martin would not comment on the specific instance recounted by the Post, but said Wednesday that this is not standard policy for Lululemon staffers.
The button layout is also different, as it uses the standard three capacitive buttons for navigation instead of the special tablet-specific menus found in Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich.
Certain programs are standard across the network which is why we tend to associate PBS with specific shows.
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The experts described a very specific clinical trial that would put Natrecor through the ringer, comparing it to the standard of care in heart failure.
While the press release did not provide too many specific details, IBM did announce an important accomplishment in successfully integrating photonics on standard CMOS circuits.
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Xerox claims that its printers, which can crank out 80 pages a minute, can target specific areas of a page for color printing using a material that is cheaper than what is used in standard laser printers.
For its newly released 2012 Vehicle Health Index, CarMD analyzed more than 163, 000 specific repairs during a one-year period ending Sept. 1, and estimated repair costs, based on several standard sources.
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But you can be sure that they will be specific, they will be measurable, they will be paid for, and they will be, by any objective standard, the kinds of measures that have enjoyed bipartisan support in the past.
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