Word: standardize
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...people and institutions to blame for the financial crisis would include credit-rating agencies - the companies that assign letter grades to everything from General Electric's bonds to Malaysia's sovereign debt, indicating the chances that investors will lose money. The CEOs of the three largest agencies - Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch - were assailed by Congress in October for the way their firms made record profits while raising few, if any, red flags about how massively risky mortgage-related securities had become...
...Notwithstanding the fact that the "buy American" provision in Sutton's bill - which has the support of U.S. automakers and the United Auto Workers union - might violate free-trade agreements if the bill is ever passed, greens are more worried about its extremely low standards. Refusing to put a mileage requirement on clunkers means that even relatively efficient cars could be traded in, provided they're at least a decade old. And putting the minimum standard for new cars at 27 m.p.g. means that more than half the cars already in the U.S. fleet would qualify, since the existing federal...
...What activities do you enjoy to keep your physique so many standard deviations from the mean? Love the gym, but mostly get my p-value from big time dominating on the Harvard Ultimate Frisbee team...
...natal screening presents a worrying situation in which those with wealth are able to purchase an objectively higher level of descendants than others. Selection of the most attractive traits presents a significant genetic advantage to the wealthy—more so than simply being able to afford a higher standard of medical treatment—and threatens to irrevocably exaggerate the divide between rich and poor...
...stance is in opposition to what some believe might be an overly restrictive need-based standard for deciding which students can remain on campus in January. A letter about the “J-term” decision sent to members of the community last week by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith suggested that students with a need to remain on campus “may potentially include varsity athletes, international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research, and others who cannot reasonably accomplish their work...