Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haven Police Department Sergeant David Burleigh said in an interview that querying people who knew the victim is part of the standard procedure for police detectives...
While we are in favor of using racial preferences as one factor in school admissions, the Boston Latin standard--which admits 50 percent of its class solely on grades and test scores and the other 50 percent on race, grades and test scores--is too narrow. Though the system admirably attempts to create a diverse class, it excessively compromises standards of fairness which the Boston lower courts have repeatedly recognized...
This Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world's most widely recognized standard for protecting basic human dignity. Predictably, diplomats were falling all over themselves at the United Nations to sing the praises of the document, as delegates from no fewer than 115 countries lined up to speak before the General Assembly. U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan set the tone when he called the declaration "the moral core of all our efforts...
...fear that what the Crimson staff meant to say, if they had been forthright, is that students' ties to evangelical Christianity frightens them in a way that, say, students' involvement with ethnic or progressive groups does not. The Crimson displays a severe double standard; a good number of the council presidential and vice-presidential candidates have ties to a wide variety of student groups, but the Crimson staff does not cite those ties as hindrances to those candidates' effectiveness. It seems that among liberals, bias against religion may be one of the last acceptable prejudices. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH...
...defense argues that state law defines only a minimum standard for health benefits and the mayor is within his rights to allocate further city funds as he wishes...