"The problem is the F.C.C. is trying to enforce a standard that doesn't exist," says Jeff Filgo, executive producer for "That 70's Show".
Ford aggressively enforced a standard of professionalism that prevented any improprieties between the models and photographers and stylists for whom they posed.
Two weeks ago, health officials said they reminded the nation's blood banks to enforce a standard procedure -- rejecting donations from patients with fever and flulike symptoms, which could be symptoms of mild West Nile fever.
If a state fails to enforce a standard, the federal government will step in to do so — as it did in several states after passage of a health insurance law in 1996.
Now that code is becoming the norm at American colleges, and few people are laughing.On September 28th Jerry Brown, California's governor, signed a bill requiring all colleges that receive state money for student financial aid to enforce a standard of "affirmative consent", or "yes means yes".
"A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.
So for all of these reasons, until an area becomes popular enough to attract attention from a vendor, a service aggregator, or some powerful player that will set and enforce a standard, you'd better plan on having to pay the integration debt over and over again.
In all of these struggles, someone must enforce a standard, from shareholders or voters to, in cultural realms, customers, users, readers, ticket buyers, critics.
The decision, which many constitutional scholars expect to be appealed to the Supreme Court, stems from a challenge by Fox, CBS and other broadcasters to the F.C.C.'s decision in 2004 to begin enforcing a stricter standard of what kind of language is allowed on free, over-the-air television.
And thus the argument for quotas – by enforcing a minimum standard for representation we force the issue.
Society can and should change to accept those who are different, rather than enforcing a single standard of normality and punishing those who don't fit".
