Instead of the prior emphasis on rates of fatal accidents, experts have started to talk publicly about statistics that highlight a much tougher standard: individual fatalities per millions of flights.
Among those are maternity care, substance abuse and mental-health services and prescription-drug coverage, which aren't standard in individual policies today, says Sarah Lueck, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit group in Washington.
On epidemiologists' standard assumption that every individual counts, vaccination programmes are intended to prevent epidemics by ensuring that each infected animal, on average, passes the disease on to less than one healthy animal.
These decisions have to made against a basic standard by looking at the individual circumstances and deciding what is fair in the circumstances.
Zappos turned itself into the standard bearer for cultural fit and individual self-expression as critical elements of healthy workplaces.
Bob Reid, AACSB's chief accreditation officer and a former dean at James Madison University's business school, says the group now assesses schools in the context of their individual missions, rather than against a common standard.
However, if you believe in individual liberty and limited government, then the gold standard is your best ally.
The standard deviation is calculated from all of the individual deviations of the data points.
Standard digital camcorders squeeze data only within each individual frame.
Thus, using standard methods to move from group inferences to individual ones, they calculated that the chance of any one person reoffending was in the range of 3% to 91%, similarly with a 95% confidence level.
Because individual hospitals differ in size, they are compared by a standard measure of the number of cases per 1, 000 bed days.
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For Eichengreen has done more than arguably any other individual to create and sustain the false impression that the gold standard caused the Great Depression.
Schools are already making professional judgements about the quality of teaching and learning, the standard of marking and the preparation and planning of individual teachers.
At the same time the Labor Department, which has jurisdiction over Individual Retirement Accounts, has also been attempting to apply the fiduciary standard to brokers it has jurisdiction over.
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Dr Molette and her colleagues raised 150 male mule ducks (a cross between Pekin and Muscovy ducks that is often used to produce foie gras) for 13 weeks in standard poultry-house conditions and then transferred them into individual enclosures.
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The standard seems to be that the only numbers kept private are individual compensation details.
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But he looked set to be excluded from the individual event in London after failing to run the Olympic 'A' standard qualification mark twice in international competition.
It could mean every sign of individual brands, from their logo, colour or typeface, being replaced by standard packaging simply carrying warnings and the name of the cigarettes.
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About 10% of applicants for individual health insurance are rejected outright and another 20% can't qualify for standard-price policies.
Premium economy also offers individual travellers a way to pay slightly more to escape the stress and discomfort of standard coach.
To open a door fitted with the latest U.S. government-certified lock from high-end Swiss lock manufacturer Kaba, an employee must both enter a code up to eight digits long, then swipe a unique identity card coded to comply with a new standard that requires an extra layer of security, one designed to track individual staffers and make covert intrusion harder than ever.
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There would also be questions about education from an individual's own education to the importance of learning new things and satisfaction with the standard of the national education system.
Mr Weber, the UBS chairman and former president of Germany's central bank, called for a global regulatory standard that would allow banks to avoid fine-tuning their risk operations in individual countries.
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While such may make for a good detective story, that should not be the standard of presentation for a formal regulatory document setting forth the circumstances on which an individual has been barred from the securities industry.
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We recognize that the Senate has chosen in the Claiborne proceedings and elsewhere not to impose its -- on itself any single standard of proof, but rather to leave that judgment to the conscience of the individual senator.
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That's because, just as with individual records like home runs, team performance has to be measured away from folklore and against the standard of the era in which it occurred.
Instead its up to individual stores to decide whether or not to offer the extended exchange period, or simply stick with the standard 14-day return policy.
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