And about eight million or so were due to high levels of lead, and that exceeds the government standard for lead paint on toys.
Perhaps most importantly, we make the most energy-efficient computers in the world and our entire product line exceeds the stringent ENERGY STAR 5.2 government standard.
If one retains doubts about the benefit of trying anything other than gold, there is still an important reason to advocate private currency competition over a government gold standard, and that is the practical execution of the standard.
This is the suggestion that under a gold standard government budget deficits would become a thing of the past.
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Holding the government to this standard would improve outcomes for sellers and buyers.
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Remember, a standard government shutdown is a highly orderly, lawful process.
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WASHINGTON The nation's top intelligence official ordered a change to the standard government polygraph test as part of new rules intended to discourage leaks of classified information.
Months earlier, an international magazine said it had seen a leaked official document saying that reserves were only half the government's standard boast: that Kuwait has a tenth of the world's.
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Hayek himself, out of a deeply-rooted (and honestly earned) pessimism about government opposed the gold standard.
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But Gov.UK is more than just an improvement it sets a new standard for government websites around the world.
By that standard, government has been over-reaching with poor results to show and would do better to narrow its efforts.
The report also questioned the GCSE results from Bristol's 10 academies - three were below the government's expected standard.
"She attends government functions and her standard of living is higher than most Cubans, " the FBI said in a statement.
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Mr Obama will claim that the departures of Messrs Daschle and Richardson and Ms Killefer prove that he really is holding his government to a higher standard.
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Hassan accused the government of a double standard for allowing Beyonce to perform, but at the same time refusing permission to an Islamic band that sings religious songs for children.
For government employees, the standard is different, notes Hurd.
The U.S. government's FIPS 140-2 certification of BlackBerry 10 and the selection of BlackBerry 10 by the German Procurement Office and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) underline how our new platform continues to set the standard for government communications.
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In his first annual report on the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measure (TPim) regime - brought in to replace control orders - David Anderson said the government needed a higher standard of proof before they applied to the courts for an order.
That the President set a very high standard for openness and transparency, I will concede, and that he has asked his government to pursue and achieve that standard, I will also concede.
Smid noted that NIST's public contest to find the next generation encryption standard is a radical change from the government's previously closed procedure for adopting DES. "It's a breakthrough in the way the government and the public sector are coming up with a standard, " he said.
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What eliminates child labor is not government decree but a rising standard of living.
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For decades, US government bonds were the gold standard for long-term, risk free fixed income investors.
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Currently 35% of council homes in the region are failing to meet the Government's decent homes standard.
However, if you believe in individual liberty and limited government, then the gold standard is your best ally.
The gold standard forced the government to responsibly confront irresponsible fiscal policy.
Staying on the gold standard left the government with only two options.
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.
Citing privacy concerns, Petrovich also declined to make public any of the documents Gill submitted for government employment, including his Standard Form 86, the questionnaire Gill had to fill out to receive a security clearance.
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More people will lose more money if the government makes ignorance the new market standard.
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