Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...globalization process." These days, Baumohl explains, when a U.S.-based company sends manufacturing contracts abroad, it is expected, and sometimes required, to pay a reasonable wage for services rendered. In countries highly dependent on foreign contracts, an increase in manufacturing-job salaries means a considerable upswing in the national standard of living. Rising wages in foreign countries are good news to U.S. labor interests as well, says Baumohl. Immigrant workers, such as the factory employees who recently launched a campaign against conditions in the New York City factory that makes super-trendy Kate Spade handbags, would be far less likely...
When River House dwellers returned to campus this past week, some found more than the standard- issue desk and bookshelf waiting for them in their rooms...
Alpert says these visitors are standard American cockroaches. They gain access to dorm rooms, he said, in the summer months when shower pipes are dry and the roach can climb up through the drain...
...early January, Choto wrote an article in the Zimbabwe Standard--a weekly based in the capital city of Harare--about an attempted coup within the Zimbabwe National Army to overthrow the government. Chavunduka is the Standard's editor...
...Standard "has a history of independent reporting" which is what angers the government, he added...