Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arbitrary and capricious' [legal] standard is a very tough one, but if there is an institution that's arbitrary and capricious, it's the ad board," MacLeish said...
Harvard's squash team has always maintained a high standard of excellence, McNeeley said, and athletic officials foresee Bajwa extending that tradition...
Harvard's squash team has always maintained a high standard of excellence, McNeeley said, and athletic officials foresee Bajwa extending that tradition...
...mainly that a tightening in the U.S. could make things difficult for neighbors to the south. "The Asian crisis may be over," he says, "but the Latin American one isn?t. Greenspan doesn?t want it erupting and hurting the U.S." Funny thing ? those same fears, plus some standard nail-biting over earnings reports, are muting what might have been a big inflation celebration on Wall Street. Which makes Greenspan?s laissez-faire that much easier to defend...
...momentous news on Wednesday when a joint American-Ugandan research team announced a new, simple and inexpensive way to help prevent the transmission of the AIDS virus from pregnant mother to child. The new treatment uses the drug nevirapine, whose costs amounts to about $4, instead of the standard, short-course AZT regimen used in the Third World, whose costs total an impractical $268. Better yet, the new method proved more effective: It brought the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission down to 13 percent, a big improvement over the 25 percent transmission risk of the standard Third World...