Indeed, let's have some real fun: merge the dollar and the euro, since they've pretty much achieved market parity, and the euro comes - at least, it appears to come - equipped with fiscal disciplines that the budget-busting Bush administration badly needs.
But Microsoft has more, and harder work ahead of it to not simply establish its platforms — which it has done to a modest, if stable extent — but instead to drive them to market parity with the far larger iOS and Android ecosystems.
For the foreign-exchange markets, though, parity has assumed great symbolic significance.
Two things: the success of Airbus in achieving rough market-share parity at the end of the 1990s, and resentment over launch aid for the A380, the superjumbo designed to bring to an end the long reign of the 747.
Those policies are specifically set forth, 7 U.S.C. 602, and in general provide that orders should establish and maintain orderly marketing conditions and parity prices for milk producers.
"[Indies] deserve equal market access and parity of terms with Universal, Sony and Warner," it states in the manifesto, "and an independent copyright should be valued and remunerated at the same level as a major company copyright".
Modern marketing fights that parity, using science, art and psychology to create more products to extract as much money for any stated need, at a range of prices.
Intel officials say the Pentium 4 will help fend off the tenacious attack that Advanced Micro Devices amd has mounted in the past year and a half with its Athlon a chip that for the first time lets the perennial No. 2 in the market claim technological parity with its larger rival.
Nonetheless, Portuguese bond yields, which for most of the past four years have been much higher than those for emerging markets, are now at parity with them.The gains in bond markets have contrasted with a setback in equities in the first half of January.
Whereas efforts to empower women economically in developed markets focus on wage parity, glass ceilings and the family-friendliness of companies, empowerment efforts in most emerging markets face a different, larger set of societal and economic challenges that begin during childhood with education access and continue throughout adulthood to capital and employment access.
