Some companies in the West are beginning to certify their wood as legal and sustainable — at considerable cost — and are trying to tell consumers that they have done so.
The Election Assistance Commission, a federal agency, this year began to fully certify four private-sector labs to stress-test machines.
After a producer change (Peter Asher) for 1987's "In My Tribe" and 1989's "Blind Man's Zoo," the band began to find commercial success, with "Zoo" certifying platinum.
At this time, private loyalty-review boards and anti-communist investigators began to appear to fill a growing demand among certain industries to certify that their employees were above reproach.
She got certified by the American Drafting Design Association, and began to teach the course; some of her students went on to do drafting work for Boeing.
He said he was certified in Iran in 2000 and then began to work his way up.
The Department of Cultural Affairs has certified roughly 3,400 artists since 1971, but the number of applicants shrank as the lofts filled out and the requirements began to be ignored.
But during simulations, few seemed to recognize the seal of a popular program called TrustE, begun by the industry to certify sites that comply with basic privacy standards.
Among other things, the law (specifically, in the newly created Section 6056 of the Internal Revenue Code) requires businesses subject to the mandate to certify beginning in 2014 whether or not they offer insurance that meets the law's requirements to cover full-time employees.
Even after a provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, of 2002, began requiring C.E.O.s and C.F.O.s to certify the accuracy of corporate financial reports, few executives were charged with violating the law, because the companies threw up a thicket of subcertifications to buffer accountability.
