Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your own life is your highest value [under Objectivism]--the value that sets the standard for morality," said Harry Binswanger, editor of The Ayn Rand Lexicon. "Man is not his brother's keeper. We reject the idea that someone else's need gives him the claim to your money, service or life...
...richest and most powerful lobbies in the nation, steadfastly behind it. When former Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan's tax reform plan proposed eliminating the the mortgage interest deduction for vacation homes, NAR president David Roberts denounced it as a prescription for "less growth in the American standard of living and a lower quality of life...
Long-time Dead fans will criticize Built to Last for its gloss and commercialism. The Dead have certainly discovered the benefits of modern marketing, packaging a deluxe picture disk CD edition of Built to Last with a set of Grateful Dead playing cards and providing order forms in the standard editions of the album so that fans can purchase Grateful Dead coffee mugs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers by mail...
...baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this alphabet soup," says James Morris, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In many cases, he says, customers are postponing purchases until one format emerges dominant, the way VHS surpassed Beta as a videocassette standard...
...Cleef's to shame. There is an intricate crown woven from fine gold strands; a flask carved flawlessly from a solid block of crystal; a pair of heavy cuffs set with stones that look like large, startled eyes; a playful necklace festooned with teardrop pendants. "It sets a magnificent standard," says Georgina Herrmann, an archaeologist at the British Institute of Archaeology. "The workmanship would be difficult to duplicate today...