More recently, it said that 89% of 500, 000 workers it surveyed throughout its supply chain in February met its working hours standard.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which set the first Wi-Fi standard, is currently working on a new standard called 802.11i that is expected to address the security concerns.
He and others are working on a standard that will support all Asian languages.
An IEEE group is currently working on a standard, 802.11e, that among other things will bring QOS to wireless networks.
Last year, they set up the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association, which is working on a standard set of documents to make trading easier.
Many also want to carry on working beyond the standard retirement age for the mental stimulation (try that on the next bored-looking 20-year-old you meet in the lift).
Three of the big wireless-telecoms firms, Motorola, Ericsson and Siemens, are already working on a standard platform for mobile games to be played on cellphones and other handheld products.
And consider the impact of this path on the living standard of working families.
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In reality, it was precisely because the gold standard was working so well that Nixon felt he had no choice but to abandon it.
Working teaches adolescents to speak standard English clearly so they can be understood.
But as his productivity increased, by 1913 he could enjoy a much-improved standard of living working only 2, 632 hours.
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We could all keep working and just double our standard of living.
What would it take to set up a genuine gold standard with a working mechanism for converting US dollars into gold on demand?
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Carriers are working toward a more universal standard for cell phones.
Since previous standards had not addressed commercial zip lines in great detail, an ASTM International subcommittee is working on developing a new standard for these kinds of rides.
This means the bonus rules will probably apply to subsidiaries of Barclays and Deutsche Bank in the US, Standard Chartered bankers working in Asia and Goldman Sachs traders based in London.
The show's curators, Judy Ogana and Joy Mboya, decided to try anyway, sifting through 2, 000 photographs, most of them taken by Boniface Mwangi, a young Kenyan working for the local Daily Standard, and Yasuyoshi Chiba, a gutsy Japanese.
We are also committed to working together to develop high standard trade and investment rules in the region and promote regional economic integration, consistent with the long-term objective of the APEC economies to develop a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).
Not that we were ever that optimistic about peace breaking out in the war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, the two rival high-def disc formats that are duking it out over which one is going to succeed the DVD, but you can forget about whatever Sony was saying in recent weeks about being open to burying the hatchet and working to develop a single standard.
Ironically, the weak economies of Europe are working under a kind of gold standard.
The standard of living for many working Americans will go down over the next decade.
Dr. Alpa Dalal, a chest physician at GTB Hospital, Mumbai's main TB hospital, said she has been warning government TB officials that the standard cocktail isn't working for many of her drug-resistant cases.
These households will arrive at retirement with insufficient wealth to maintain the average level of consumption enjoyed over their working life, let alone the increased standard of living enjoyed after the children leave.
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But in this information era, in an environment of freedom, more people also means more brains working to enhance opportunity and to enrich the standard of living.
Automakers are already working toward achieving the 54.5-mpg standard.
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Clearly, the Votkinsk experience has shown the shortfalls of the current standard, and of the practice of working out "technical details" regarding such inspections after the treaties are signed (as was done with the Votkinsk inspection arrangements).
Other pushes in the right direction would come from American Thomas Stockham, who would push forward 16-bit recording in the US. It's not until the start of the '80s, when Philips (after working with Sony) demonstrated what would be the standard Compact Disc -- finally going into production in 1982 -- that digital would really turn a corner and gain traction.
It's a message designed to resonate with working-class voters, and the Republican Party's standard-bearer for the evening, Sen.
On Tuesday, AOL reiterated its commitment to working with the Internet Engineering Task Force to establish an industry standard.
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