Managers patrol every new store with light meters to make sure aisles are lit to the company standard of 90 footcandles.
Rating company Standard and Poor's raised the country's long-term sovereign credit rating from "stable" to "positive" last week, citing optimism about the government's ability to carry out structural changes.
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Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and (at that time) richest man in the world.
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Rockefeller struck a fortune when he founded Standard Oil Company in 1870.
Because Google offers Android for free, including the source code, it makes Google look like a saint, or a company of higher moral standard than Apple or Microsoft.
Unlike most of his peers in the beverage industry, Seth holds his company to a high standard of environmental sustainability and partners with NGOs and community-based suppliers to work toward this ideal.
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Another support could come if other countries face downgrades, neutralizing a more critical view of the U.K. "The respite may be that other European countries are downgraded too, and the U.K. could be in good company, " said Standard Life's Mr. Milligan.
The app allows users to not only share the standard name, company, email and phone number, but also their Facebook address, Twitter handle, LinkedIn profile and more.
At the first staff meeting afterward, his manager quietly slid him a box that held a standard item the company gave to recognize a job well done.
Better yet, make it a standard for your company.
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It has the same 5 megapixel camera that's fast becoming the standard among the company's handsets, it has the Hero's now admittedly aging CPU, and it has the latest version of Sense UI that includes Friend Stream and the multitouch Leap homescreen viewer.
But the real issue plaguing the stock Thursday is the news that the company is planning to start offer service based on the LTE standard to wholesale customers in parallel with the WiMax network the company now operates.
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Outside of the proxy arena, if a company engages in SCF and represents to the public that Shariah is a standard set by Shariah authorities relied upon by the company, has the company disclosed enough about Shariah to tell the whole story?
Contractors want to connect with their own endpoints and may have a different standard than the host company.
Chrysler has come as close to producing cars to the legendary Toyota lean standard as any other company.
These require companies to make uniform assumptions about investment returns and apply the reporting standard across the entire company.
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Most people believe that DRM will eventually be a standard part of a company's security infrastructure, much like firewalls and virus protection.
It had passed industry standard tests but the company found it had needed its own more rigorous testing as it explored the unknown territory of wearables.
Continuuity is a cloud platform with a suite of developer tools that the company says enable any developer with standard skills to become a Big Data Application (BDA) developer.
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In a statement posted on its website last month, EPEAT did not elaborate on Apple's reasons for quitting the standard, which the company and other industry leaders helped create.
Knoll explains that at the height of the tech bubble investors bid up the shares on the news that Pearl had become involved with a company that patented what became a standard for Web browsers.
The company produces more than 15, 000 standard products, including amplifiers, data converters, and low-power radio frequency devices.
The increasingly mighty company has managed to secure leases without standard revenue-sharing provisions and has flown through some lengthy public-approval systems.
The company is simply so good at making standard-shift transmissions, that getting an autobox is like buying a Corvette without a clutch--what's the point?
Standardizing the process by which companies strike deals to do clinical trials that compare an experimental drug to a standard regimen made by another company.
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Nathan Parnaby, chief executive of Asia and Emerging Markets for Standard Life, said the company's long-term vision in the Middle East was to build a leading retail savings and investments business.
According to people familiar with Google's thinking, they felt the company was being held to a higher standard than less well-known firms, and preferred to let more aggressive rivals test the boundaries.
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The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
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