With respect to the euro, which is now trading at a 14 month low vs. the U.S. Dollar, perhaps this is an opportunity for the euro to pare down some of its weaker country components and implement stricter debt and spending standards (or perhaps better enforce their existing standards).
The leader of a Somerset council has said the authority will not be able to maintain its high standards due to anticipated spending cuts.
The conflict between Tony Blair's zeal for market-based reforms and his successor's preference for central standards backed by big spending splintered Labour for years.
But higher-spending middle-aged tourists want higher standards.
To rank all 50 states, the group focused on a variety of programs, including standards for equipment and appliances, energy codes for buildings and policies for land use and transportation, as well as public spending on initiatives at utilities, tailpipe standards and tax incentives.
They want to invest where governments control their spending, investments earn solid aftertax profits, living standards rise rapidly along with consumption, labor is educated and flexible, and regulation is transparent, not secretive.
The new standards apply to homeowners and businesses who are spending 50 percent or more of the market value of their property on rebuilding and who are using Sandy disaster aid.
Further, let us say that in order to make sure that they were getting performances that met minimum standards, for the money the army was spending, they asked the quality control corps to set up a methodology for evaluating plays, to determine what theater companies would be kept on, and which would be let go.
Although doctors and nurses are badly paid by European standards, staff costs account for half of health spending.
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They would love a bit of what you might call proper inflation - not the kind we have had recently, in which living standards have been squeezed by jumps in energy or food prices that cuts consumers' spending power, but the sort we haven't seen for years, pay rises.
Considered a moderate by Afghan standards, Mr. Qalamuddin is no longer involved in the armed struggle and, after spending two years in prison, lives openly in Kabul.
The chief inspector for schools in England, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has criticised schools for spending money on TAs instead of teachers, saying good-quality teaching was the best way to raise standards.
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