As most readers doubtless know, H beams are the standard unit of steel used in construction.
Different cities got assigned the same ad but in differing volumes of gross ratings points, the standard unit for measuring advertising saturation.
So while growth in the Fed's monetary base is overrated when it comes to currency values and inflation (base growth was the same in the '70s as it was in the '80s), the failure of the Nixon Treasury to clearly state its commitment to the Bretton Woods gold standard led to a falling unit of account.
The unit comes with a docking station for connecting to your computer, but there's also a standard USB port on the bottom of the unit in addition to the docking connector, so presumably you don't need to lug the dock around with you to transfer files on the go.
Standard Chartered PLC's China unit reported profit of 883 million yuan, more than double what it earned the previous year.
"Organizations supporting hyperscale workloads need powerful servers to maximize efficiency and realize radical space, cost and energy savings, " said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale Business Unit, Industry-standard Servers and Software at HP.
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His unit will now work across Standard Life's retail, corporate, wealth and direct-to-customer division.
The unit is powered by a standard 120V or Ridgid 18V battery, and if you're curious as to just how hardcore this thing is, there's an enlightening video embedded just after the break.
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The Virginia legislature, members of both houses, and parties, have an historic opportunity to enact and conduct a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of a United States monetary unit based on a metallic standard.
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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.
On the front face of the unit you've got your standard "back" and "forward" buttons plus a slider, which keeps it simple and works intuitively to navigate in and out of the menu hierarchies.
In most private sector businesses the opposite goal is the standard: higher productivity more output per unit of input.
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For one, under a gold standard money would serve its sole purpose as a unit of exchange, and for doing so would unleash very impressive growth.
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The standard measure for such things is the Scoville Heat Unit, or SHU, named after Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, a chemist who in 1912 developed a method of assessing the heat given off by capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers.
The unit's output level is lower than standard equipment like DVD players, forcing you to crank up the stereo's volume.
The gold standard, where a dollar is defined by a weight unit of gold, will enable people to use the same currency at a secured value.
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Of course, the Pro in the title less likely comes from all those standard def inputs, and more likely from the long awaited HD support the unit now features.
When you purchase an iPhone for example, the unit comes with a Google Maps feature, built-in utilities, a standard Web browser, a stock tracker, a weather app, etc.
Faster and more durable, the SSD unit provides a rapid boot-up and quicker access to applications than is typical of standard hard drives.
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