But few filmmakers want to make standard television documentaries, spending months in archives or arguing over rights and permissions.
By shunning prosaic exposition and graphic devices, "The Lives They Lived" avoids the sentimentality, sensationalism and didacticism that make standard cable-television biographies so repetitive.
That acquisition, a $30 million deal, helped make Standard a leader in the digital-analog movement, or what is called mixed-signal technology.
D-Wave says it has succeeded where others have failed by using a simple design, derived from technologies already used to make standard computer chips.
In the Volcker resurrection, commercial banks would take deposits, manage the nation's payments system, make standard loans and even trade securities for their customers — just not for themselves.
Here the two young men make standard figureheads in the leadership struggle between the high priest Tzekel-Kan, an adherent of human sacrifice, and the kindly tribal chief.
"If these funds buy into a big Fidelity mutual, they make standard kinds of investments that the Yale endowment makes," said Lawrence H. Summers, the economist who served as Treasury secretary and president of Harvard.
The Nokia is a little bigger and a lot heavier than an iPhone, and it includes a big touch screen, but you can't use it to make standard cellphone calls.
The price cut will make Standard one of the most high-profile victims of stock market turbulence, which has been sparked by fears about rising inflation and interest rates and a falling dollar.
By holding schools less accountable for student progress, the bill proposed by Representatives Sam Graves, Republican of Missouri, and Tim Walz, Democrat of Minnesota, would make standard the educational status quo.
