Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that the faculty were able to conceive of and start construction on a new building, to renovate existing labs, and to hire new faculty during the same time they were unable to act on this proposal to improve graduate student life, a proposal which incorporates aspects of standard operating procedure from other top chemistry departments around the country...
...colorful tapestry hangs as a curtain over the window, replacing the standard-issue white shade. A red-velvet-covered wood table sits next to an easy chair, while a hand-carved blow gun hangs above the fire-place...
...Bartlett case is just one more boost to the great American tradition of fudging. If at first you don't succeed, try to bend the rules. If you fail to meet a standard, either of morality or competency, there's always room to maneuver...
...media adapts to the changing ways we get our news, though, the all-important editorial independence from business concerns gets harder and more costly to sustain. So if providing us with the gossip and entertainment we like is increasingly the goal of our news providers, perhaps the standard gripes against the media elite are wrong. Maybe the media needs to be more insulated from mainstream pressures...
...include targeting commercial, not private, web sites and aiming at content "harmful" to minors, instead of "patently offensive or indecent," he appears blithely indifferent to a host of issues his legislation would raise: Overseas sites, for example, which are beyond U.S. control. Or the lack of a national decency standard, which means any local jurisdiction could make up its own rules. Or the fact that there's no sure way to tell someone's age online. "Unless you make minors go around with an Internet ID that says 'I'm a kid' -- which would be great for pedophiles -- there...