His goal is not to fix a property, but to get it to some minimum standard.
The solution is to get everyone educated and make everyone competitive and provide a minimum standard of living.
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It establishes a "minimum standard" prohibiting creditors from issuing mortgages unless the borrower can prove they'll repay the loan.
That's the minimum standard for getting our attention on a busy news cycle.
It also called for a minimum standard for the legroom given to passengers, and for seat cushions to be widened.
That's why last November we introduced a requirement for all those applying for a marriage visa to demonstrate a minimum standard of English...
Second, that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions represents a minimum standard of decency that must be applied to all detainees, without exception.
The panel recommended schools which fail to raise pupils' literacy rates to the required minimum standard for their age should face a financial penalty.
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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Val Cameron, of Health Protection, said the law will ensure there is a minimum standard to make sure the condition of homes are up to scratch.
The WHQS sets a minimum standard for homes, with certain requirements at its core that are more challenging than similar schemes in other parts of the United Kingdom.
The licence agreement includes delivering a minimum standard of service.
The results of national tests taken by 11-year-olds were published on December 1st, and the number of schools where all pupils achieved the minimum standard expected has slumped by a fifth.
With passive restraints the government wanted to see how various devices worked, but Williamson involves seatbelts and there the government only was interested in setting a minimum standard manufacturers could exceed if they wanted.
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The criteria will set the a minimum standard for sustainability for the tourism business, covering the social and economic benefits of tourism as well as its impact on a destination's environment and cultural heritage.
Whereas most would think that universal guarantees to a minimum standard of living reduce incentives to work and innovate, Obama believes they give the down-and-out the incentive to build business and employ people.
By eliminating healthcare insurance discrimination against those who desperately need it, expanding public and private sources of affordable insurance, and guaranteeing a minimum standard benefit, HIV care will become more readily accessible than ever before.
That furnace would save a typical homeowner 16% off his heating bill, compared to an 80% efficient unit, the new minimum standard put out by the DOE, says Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.
That's why I think the progress that we've made in offering tax credits for those to afford to be able to have a minimum set of health care -- a minimum standard of health care that allows us not to pay for their health care in that sense, and to get the health care that they need.
"Before the 200-square-foot additions, the homes were each 2, 490 square feet, well above DoD's minimum size standard, " the report said.
The concept of a minimum income standard (MIS) was introduced by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) four years ago - I wrote about it here.
They are kept that way by the constitution, which separates police officers from other public servants, meaning they do not qualify for the standard minimum wage and the 40-hour weekly work limit.
While the goal of the initiative is to move PC gaming from the desk to the living room, that doesn't necessarily involve a single hardware standard or minimum spec, Valve hardware engineer Jeff Keyzer told Engadget in an interview this morning at CES 2013.
These accords are a global regulatory standard on bank minimum capital requirements, bank liquidity, and bank leverage.
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In such a scenario, since local subsidiaries (Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru) cannot reduce capital reserves below a certain level, we assume these subsidiaries would only lower their capital reserves up to one standard deviation above the legal minimum, to prevent potentially violating any regulatory requirements during periods of heightened volatility.
Many Senate Republicans--especially in the Southeast where wind power is scarce--aren't comfortable with the "renewable portfolio standard" mandating utilities provide a minimum amount of clean energy production.
Instead, the minimum benefit should be tied to a single, national standard that sets a floor based on what a basic, consumer-directed plan now offers.
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