Disclosure standards and rules are often laughable, but luckily you can glean important information from companies' own websites.
Secondly, as Chinese companies expand outside China, they become members of the global community, and as such, are required to comply with global standards and rules, wherever their operations are located.
America imprisons people for technical violations of immigration laws, environmental standards and arcane business rules.
The EU enlargement process is aimed at integrating new members into the web of EU standards, rules and subsidies, not at transforming its political rulers, says Ms Mungiu-Pippidi.
These are, basically, international maritime standards and some federal rules.
It describes the "current architecture" and "target architecture" to include the rules and standards and systems life cycle information to optimize and maintain the environment which the agency wishes to create and maintain by managing its IT portfolio.
Ofcom will have increased powers to investigate and fine companies for transgressing competition rules and content standards.
These standards are hard and fast rules that make it impossible for, say, an airline-mechanic crew at LaGuardia Airport to give into the demands of impatient pilots and passengers when something appears to be not quite right with the landing gear on a departing plane.
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But in between a host of practical problems arise in deciding which rules and standards are mutually acceptable.
First, so that the whole of the worldwide banking system serves our prosperity rather than risks it, let us agree rules and standards for accountability, transparency, and reward that will mean an end to the excesses and will apply to every bank, everywhere, and all the time.
Labour said Mr Fox had "fallen foul of the standards expected of ministers and broken the rules".
It was in the form of a blistering, 1, 760-page staff report calling for a government takeover of accounting rules and auditing standards.
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However, given their work rules and hiring standards, I would love to see a comparison of their IQ scores to those of the postal workers.
Also adding to the anxiety: a Supreme Court decision in April setting higher standards for obtaining a patent and new rules from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month that, among other things, limit the number of continuing patent applications that can be filed.
While we knew that some people could not afford to make the home purchases that they did, we did not recognize that their numbers would be swelled by the simultaneous lowering of underwriting standards, changes in accounting rules and a slowing economy diminishing the income potential of both new buyers and current owners.
Look closer, and who but the state can provide the necessary rules for trading standards, the environment, social rights and so on?
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Apple has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards, complying with applicable laws and accounting rules.
She repeatedly urged Hasan to reconsider, noting that he would be held to the same standards as all attorneys regarding courtroom rules and military law and be going up against a prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience.
The Conference therefore calls upon States and all parties to armed conflicts strictly to observe international humanitarian law, as set forth in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other rules and principles of international law, as well as minimum standards for protection of human rights, as laid down in international conventions.
Ratings are, for instance, used in evaluating capital standards and in central banks' collateral-eligibility rules.
In the meantime, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) clarified the rules and gave banks, in particular, a potential defense.
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Ashley Alder, chief executive of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), said the new rules "will incentivise sponsors to raise standards, pick the right deals and manage them well, which should in turn reduce risks for investors and all those involved in the initial public offerings".
Adapting old buildings to modern standards of hygiene and privacy is particularly expensive because of rules aimed at preserving historic architecture.
But Sir Stuart Bell, who sits on the estimate committee, told the BBC on Sunday that Sir Thomas had been asked to carry out a review "in accordance with the rules at the time and the standards that applied at the time".
These laws would have to meet minimum standards: proceedings would have to be transparent, and the rules would have to be backed up by sanctions.
In a nod to the reality of rigs inching closer to homes, the commission earlier this month passed new rules that apply somewhat different standards to urban and rural areas.
The common interface standards mean that there are rules for constructing the hardware and software used in the family of radios so that even though they may have different configurations and users, they can all communicate when their settings match.
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which publishes the actual rules that Wi-Fi devices reference, said its standards-writing process is running ahead of schedule and should publish the new standard before year's end.
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