Many local restaurants, hotels and shops pride themselves on being a part of the Parisian design movement with their own museum-quality interiors.
But the latest proposals, to charge banks according to their own assessments of credit quality, are back on the drawing board.
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The trouble is one of the real points of QE is central banks swap lower quality, potentially liquidity- impaired collateral with higher quality collateral of their own, in the hope that by the fact they are swapping it, in itself it will increase the quality of a potentially impaired asset.
They also own their fleet of high quality vehicles, and are on a first name basis with the best hotels and game lodges, and even the anthropologists and scientists with whom they arrange special private VIP visits for customers.
John Mezias and Bill Starbuck published several articles in which they showed how people do not even know basic facts about their own companies, such as the sales of their own business unit, error rates, or quality indicators.
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Some companies (like Vancl) have decided to invest in their own delivery service to ensure better quality.
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They also own their fleet of high-quality vehicles, and are on a first name basis with the best hotels and game lodges.
She has segued from designing the interiors of high-end residences, luxury hotels, country clubs, and resorts (others in her company now do this) to showing women how to design their own space and providing affordable, quality furnishings for them.
As seen in the screenshot above, closed captions, face match, quality and buffering options have their own submenu now, while the toggles, pop-out and lower lights have been moved into a box below the player.
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The states are resigned to being responsible for their own emissions, but they are assessed on the quality of the air itself, even if some of the emissions present have sneaked across the border.
He thus joined W. Edwards Deming (see article) in management mythology as one of the two Americans who, unappreciated in their own fast-food country for their ideas about quality, had been compelled to go abroad to find recognition.
And the ACO is set up by providers, not an insurance company, so the doctors and hospitals can work within their own framework as long as they are meeting the quality measures and outcomes agreed to in the contract with the insurer.
By persuading and assisting additional journalism schools to share their adapted curricula in OER format on the Platform, we provide the professor, curricula developer, or quality assurance assessor looking to develop their own curricula with an unparalleled opportunity to easily and intuitively select and compare curricula from near-by or international institutions, in their own language.
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Banks tend to prefer presenting bonds of weaker quality, keeping the stronger ones on their own books.
Research has suggested that individuals working on their own generally come up with more original and higher-quality ideas.
Consumers should be making those decisions on their own based on things important to them, like service quality, innovative devices and more.
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Other vineyards along Highway 128 maintain their own homey atmosphere while producing character-rich, high-quality wine.
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It was the science and engineering developments that kept Teesside steels reputation for quality, as competitor countries began to develop their own steel industries.
If criminal charges were filed--even without ever being tried--AIG's stock price would plummet, institutional holders would be forced to sell because of their own bylaws, and the company could lose the sterling credit quality it needed to write insurance and derivative contracts on favorable terms.
With technology moving at the rate it is and globalization happening faster than ever before, more companies are looking to get more high-quality work done quickly, without the need for their own in-house employees to complete the task on site.
Having their own distribution and logistics network allows them to source products from local suppliers while maintaining strict quality control.
Water quality issues also create risk for companies, from stricter pollution standards on their own effluent to other entities polluting water upstream, requiring them to clean up water prior to use.
If the politicians would stop playing politics with higher education, and would create an environment in which quality of provision is the overriding determinant, the current problems would turn into their own solution.
Sharp will compete with the less expensive LCD's with higher quality items and they believe the success of their products speaks for the desire for customers to own better displays.
The true widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio projector provides cinema-quality images so consumers can enjoy movies in their original widescreen format, from the comfort of their own home.
After VHS cassettes made it easier for consumers to have their own video libraries, DVDs allowed them to save even more space in their shelves, with greater picture and sound quality, as well as longevity.
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