These days, there are fewer specific standards to be met and fewer brands and styles that "must" be owned.
Until there are very specific standards for what food companies can and cannot say under what circumstances, unproven claims are going to continue and accelerate.
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After several years--the time needed to build up the assets to realize the economies of scale--workers would have the opportunity to allocate their funds among any qualified investment accounts that met reasonable and specific standards.
Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.
While there are no specific industry standards, Smirnow, head of the solar industry association, is spearheading a voluntary program of environmental responsibility.
For instance, the Smithsonian could assert digitally that a certain piece of video is intended for ages 5-7 in natural science, aligned with specific state standards.
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Existing SLAs tend to be drawn up without reference to specific regulatory and standards requirements.
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The switch from proprietary, airline-specific technologies to open standards will, however, reduce the airlines' scope for differentiation.
The EPA sets performance standards for specific categories of industrial sources.
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Missing from the often-cited standards are specific references to many technologies that the security industry has long been pushing card companies to adopt: EMV (Chip and PIN), End-to-End (E2E) encryption, tokenization and virtualization.
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Setting aside the larger question of whether imposing national education standards is a legitimate function of a limited federal government, let's turn to the specific question of whether or not national standards will lead to education reforms.
This ordinance merely imposes very specific, common-sense nutrition standards for children's meals that are linked to these incentives.
"The working group drew on standards developed through the Safe and Sustainable process, but amended the standards to reflect the specific needs of the Northern Ireland population, " they said.
Some industries are beginning to define industry-specific water stewardship principles and water accounting standards.
And of course, you'll also have to meet specific health code and fire-safety standards.
The standards also do not require specific technologies, but instead allow automakers to meet their fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas targets however they choose.
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While we should try to improve mortgage standards and deal with the specific problems that the crisis has brought to light, the wholesale regulation of the financial system, based on the false premise that the core of the system is flawed, would give us the worst of both worlds: no growth and no stability.
What standards must it meet for your specific business needs?
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The bill would give the industry nine months to come up with new standards that address concussion risks and the specific needs of young players.
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And on the domestic level, the measure of success of a government and a country was not this particular piece of legislation or that specific reform but whether it had provided successively rising standards of living for its broad middle class.
Financial services is an industry that requires deep specific expertise, about the businesses and the complex accounting standards that apply to them.
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He notes that W3C standards are still evolving, and that some functions are specific to a small number of users.
Even if he did, he didn't disrupt the work of Congress, because the hearing at which he testified didn't relate to a specific piece of legislation, so the lie wouldn't meet the legal standards for convictions on the charges against Mr. Clemens, the defense hopes to argue.
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.
Mr Harrison doubts whether the new focus on standards will make much difference in reality, arguing if they are too specific they will be targets in everything but name.
Motorola (in this specific case, but also to a lesser extent Samsung in other Apple related litigation) holds standards related patents.
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To receive the funds, the states had to prove that they were progressing in specific areas including turning around low-performing schools, adopting college- and career-ready standards, and using data systems to support student achievement.
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Specific details will differ, depending on the type of plans offered by the private companies meeting Medicare's standards.
"We do not think that research based on tests in a small number of specific topics taken in 11 schools by 11 to 14-year-olds is a good way to judge standards in the maths GCSE - an exam which tests the full breadth of the curriculum and that is taken by older pupils from all schools in the country, " she said.
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