Word: standardism
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...with two Moscow stores and began a national push in 2004. In the two years since, the number of its cheerful yellow outlets and the size of its revenues have both increased tenfold. Last year it sold 9 million handsets. It's now a $2 billion company. By any standard, that's explosive growth. "Microsoft and Dell didn't do it that quickly," says Jan Dauman, a London-based consultant who is advising the company on how to cope with its rapid expansion. Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Euroset's ponytailed co-founder and chairman, is conscious of his success - perhaps too conscious...
...would accrue not just to the kids but also to the beverage makers. Even before the Clinton announcement, 43 states had enacted or introduced legislation to improve school nutrition, raising the specter of a crazy quilt of local rules the companies would have to learn and meet. One uniform standard would be in everyone's interest...
Magaziner pressed the argument for a common standard to the manufacturers and also stressed that cleaning up the vending machines would be easier now, if only because the drinkmakers had already introduced so many healthier options, like mineral water and low-sugar juices. The beverage companies at first pushed back against restrictions in the high schools: Magaziner says they argued that if these kids were almost old enough to fight in Iraq, why should they be denied their choice of soda? The companies ultimately relented, but with so many product lines and so many portion sizes, working out the details...
...Gass's efforts to make the technology an industrywide standard have gone nowhere. James O'Reilley, a product-liability expert at the University of Cincinnati, says other companies are probably concerned about risk and cost. "Product-liability issues are typically low on the agenda when introducing new products," he says. "Then the focus is going to be, What happens if it doesn't work...
...most reputable institutions. Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Williams College, and the University of Virginia all have explicitly defined honor codes in either an academic or general setting. Stanford, for instance, has an Honor Code for academic integrity, written by students in 1921, as well as a Fundamental Standard of Behavior for Stanford students outside of class.Academic honor codes operate on a mutual understanding between students and faculty. In this beautifully simple and effective “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” system, students are trusted to do their own work in a manner entirely unfamiliar to most...