"It has been well recognised over the last year that not all these passport-issuing bodies are operating to the same standard, " said Dr Tim Morris, vice chair of the British Horse Industry Confederation.
The Democrats were about to nominate as their standard bearer Hubert Humphrey, LBJ's loyal, pro-war vice president, even though Humphrey had not competed in a single primary.
Under the old gold standard system, a currency could be converted into fixed amounts of gold and vice versa.
"Organizations supporting hyperscale workloads need powerful servers to maximize efficiency and realize radical space, cost and energy savings, " said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale Business Unit, Industry-standard Servers and Software at HP.
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The winning trio want to use a third-generation technology called W-CDMA "because it will be the standard for 80% of the world market, " says Lee Jung Sik, vice president for LG's bidding unit.
The Republicans' presidential standard-bearer, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, wasted no time in blasting Vice President Al Gore, Clinton's would-be successor, over the issue.
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Scott Upton, vice principal of Sandwell College in Birmingham, said a formal apprenticeship is the "gold standard of vocational training" and rushing candidates through an apprenticeship programme will devalue the entire system.
"Broadcasting 3D mobile DTV shows television stations how flexible the ATSC Mobile DTV standard is and, perhaps more importantly, shows retailers and consumers a cool new application for mobile DTV, " said Jay Adrick, vice president of broadcast technology, Harris Corporation, which co-developed the ATSC MDTV standard with LG Electronics and Zenith.
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"Apple, you could argue, sets the standard for a lot of aspects of PC design, quite frankly, " says Crawford Del Prete, vice president of research at tech market tracker IDC.
"These Blu-ray Disc players offer top-of-the-line performance and operation features that enable consumers to take full advantage of the 3DTV standard as well as the many diverse entertainment options available to them, " said Bruce Tripido, associate vice president, Entertainment Products Division, Sharp Electronics Corporation.
"When an opportunity comes to engage companies constructively and hold them to a higher standard, we're going to take that opportunity every time, " said Mark Brownstein, EDF associate vice president.
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