Now TAM is planning to merge with LAN, a privatised Chilean airline which has long set the regional standard for efficiency in its open, liberalised home market.
So last year, we established a groundbreaking national fuel efficiency standard for cars and trucks.
Energy Star, started in 1992, offers a standard for energy efficiency for products such as computers and kitchen appliances.
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Its cost-income ratio, a standard measure of efficiency, is a flabby 83%.
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In fact, they will save money because a higher fuel efficiency standard obviously uses less fuel and ultimately costs less money to operate.
Last year, after going about 30 years without raising fuel-efficiency standards, we finally put in place a national fuel-efficiency standard for cars and trucks.
And we used our existing authorities in new and interesting ways through the Department of Transportation and EPA to establish the new efficiency standard that Secretary Chu was talking about.
Ms Palmer said that there was no gold plate standard and that efficiency is hard to achieve in older properties, adding that there are already tighter standards of efficiency in Wales than in England.
The meeting, held in Stockholm July 16-20, gathered almost 450 people from 26 countries representing the telecoms, computer, TV and consumer electronics industries to approve and issue a draft standard for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
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But if you've got a fuel-efficiency standard in place that says your car needs to get 20 miles a gallon or 30 miles a gallon, suddenly all these engineers are thinking, well, how do we do that?
It directs my administration, under the leadership of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, to develop a standard to improve fuel efficiency and reduce harmful emissions for trucks, starting with the model year 2014.
"The LSI WarpDrive card sets a new standard for data center efficiency by providing IT administrators with previously unattainable levels of performance while helping to reduce operational and capital expenditures, " said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel sales and marketing, LSI.
Making small, light, efficient, cheap cars is hard, and harder as the standard for lightness, smallness, efficiency, and economy is raised.
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Automakers have to meet certain fuel-efficiency standards, one standard for their fleet globally and another for their U.S. cars, which forces them to produce cars that they're not good at making.
The goal is to set one national standard that will rapidly increase fuel efficiency -- without compromising safety -- by an average of 5 percent each year between 2012 and 2016, building on the 2011 standard my administration set shortly after taking office.
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Because it encourages efficiency without compromising the high standard of quality.
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The delivery of UltraHD TV requires a more efficient compression codec made possible by the use of the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.
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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is adopting changes to its standard lease language to enhance energy and water efficiency in the more than 190 million square feet of office space the federal agency leases across the United States.
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The system of homogenised best practices stimulated efficiency but it also blocked deviations from the standard, consequently limiting the discovery of new innovations.
Apple would not comment on exactly why it abandoned the EPEAT environmental standard, which measures a product's recyclability and energy efficiency.
Then, by 2025, the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard rises to 54.5 mpg, a level of fuel efficiency that has virtually ever carmaker stretching to come up with new technologies.
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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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Standard green features in each home include LED lighting, recycled glass countertops, a high-efficiency water heater, water-conserving fixtures including dual-flush toilets, FSC-certified bamboo flooring, EnergyStar appliances, zero-VOC paints, finishes, and adhesives, a whole-house ventilation system, low-E windows, high levels of insulation, a fully recyclable, heat-deflecting cool roof, exterior wood siding and decking made from FSC-certified cedar, and much more.
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