In a profoundly non-uniform world, uniform standards are a bad idea, especially for the poorest countries, which may be unable to support them economically.
Unlike mutual funds and publicly trade stocks, structured notes are not subject to any uniform standards and transparency as to pricing, valuation and fees is profoundly lacking.
Professor Pounder believes that the establishment of a single, national service would promote uniform standards based on a more considered balance between public interest and private rights.
Walling says IBM has used the technology for its own diagnoses since 1991, and several years ago a vendor consortium called SMART developed uniform standards for reporting disk failures.
The English tests, administered to third- through eighth-graders beginning Tuesday, were the first in New York to evaluate students on uniform standards that have been adopted by most states and emphasize critical thinking.
America, chastened by its own regulatory failures, is now more supportive of tougher, co-ordinated global regulatory standards but only to a degree: it is unenthusiastic about uniform standards for executive pay pushed by Britain.
On the one hand are those such as Gillette and Heineken that have made little concession to local tastes and manufacture their goods in a few centralised production facilities that follow strictly uniform standards.
That may have been good economic policy, but it hardly promoted uniform accounting standards.
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The bill also creates uniform statewide standards for assessing ballots during manual recounts.
The plant that caught fire on Monday illustrates the challenge to imposing uniform safety standards on China's fragmented and fast-expanding food business.
In 2002, Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires schools to meet uniform test standards to qualify for federal aid.
Academics also are hopeful that there soon will be greater national consistency in how English learners are identified and how proficiency is defined through the Common Core standards and assessments, a set of uniform benchmarks adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.
"I want to reassure our men and women in uniform, and the American public, that the Air Force mortuary standards they expect for our fallen heroes are being met, " Gen Norton Schwartz, Air Force chief of staff said.
Businesses often want uniform federal regulation when it can save them money, such as with vehicle emissions standards, or when it can preempt local laws or the threat of litigation in state court.
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