That the war over conflicting standards of courtesy and behavior is being fought on airliners isn't surprising, Ms. Rutledge said, because people feel a powerlessness boarding an airplane.
The report points to the lack of involvement and information given to parents and patients even today, the conflicting standards set for doctors by different institutions, the lack of monitoring of what hospitals achieve and, in a chapter Professor Kennedy said was "written in some anger", the low priority given to children.
Republicans and Democrats took to the Senate floor on Wednesday in a passionate debate over the measure, which supporters said would clarify a jumble of conflicting standards and cast a new spotlight on the treatment of detainees at American prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba.
Kenneth K. Fisher, a Democratic city councilman who has been trying to arbitrate the matter with tenants, building owners and city officials, said the conflicting standards "have created the kind of arbitrariness that upsets folks more than the disruption of being forced from their homes".
But, in recent weeks, the juxtaposition of their unrelated cases has offered a starting point to ruminate on such questions as conflicting standards of moral judgment in Europe and the United States and whether celebrity, art, money or power might offer exemption from ordinary justice.
Whether it works or not depends on the specific combination of the sender's and receiver's handsets, operators and so on a telling illustration of the gulf between America and Europe in wireless communications.For while the mobile telephone has quietly been assimilated into European culture, in America it has been held back by industry fragmentation and a quagmire of conflicting standards.
Fortunately, we are leaving the era when this is necessarily true, a confusing transitional era with a jumble of conflicting standards: which color space?
Collaborative arrangements are now in place with other countries so server manufacturers can work with a single global standard instead of multiple conflicting standards.
The new technology has to offer better performance and higher capacity than competing systems and have broad industry support, which means no conflicting standards.
The process encourages coherence to avoid overlapping and conflicting standards.
