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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Hayek himself, out of a deeply-rooted (and honestly earned) pessimism about government opposed the gold standard.
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The report also questioned the GCSE results from Bristol's 10 academies - three were below the government's expected standard.
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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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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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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But the government argues that travel restrictions are standard ahead of several court cases Mr Nasheed faces.
And in several Asian countries, companies that want to do business with the government electronically must conform to the standard.
Under this standard, all the government needed to do was convince jurors that it was more likely than not that the Bents had defrauded investors.
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The MPs criticised standards among companies supplying school buses and called for the government to set a national minimum standard for bus contractors serving schools.
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The monetization of gold through legal tender laws and removal of taxes will restrain the government from reneging on the gold standard by putting gold on an equal footing with the dollar.
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It is important to note here that if the U.S. government implemented a new national gold standard, any flaws in its conception or kinks in its administration would cause economic pain throughout the system.
She was responding to attacks on government policy made at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
For all the flak it has received, the government's striving for a unified standard is in many ways understandable.
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The government will also introduce an Emissions Performance Standard, designed to prevent the construction of new, dirty coal plants.
The national standard set by the UK government is for clocks to go forward one hour at 01:00 on the last Sunday in March, and they go back one hour at 02:00 on the last Sunday in October.
The London panel says it will focus on helping small and medium businesses, the science and technology sector and transport infrastructure, however so far no money has been released and it has failed to provide a "standard return" to the government.
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