All the plans would have to provide standard benefit packages that would be easy to compare.
Paul Baier, who heads an advocacy organization called Survivors First, said his group had been unsuccessful in getting Ms. Thorp to provide standard questions in advance.
Many analysts have questioned whether the firm would even be sustainable if it was forced to provide standard employee benefits to all its contractors.
The service will provide standard features like e-mail, tailored financial data, news sources, library access and shopping portals -- all tailored to be as unintimidating as possible.
Even Google Earth, which incorporates so much geographical information that it seems set to consign paper maps to obsolescence, still has a way to go before it can provide standard high-resolution data of the entire planet.
The technology enables broadcasters to begin sending digital signals while also continuing to provide standard AM and FM analog service to listeners who do not own receivers able to pick up the digital programming.
A section of the presentation entitled "What do they actually do?" said online forums "celebrate 'victories' against creditors, set up tallies of how much has been refunded in bank charges [and] provide standard template letters".
To slash Medicare and Medicaid spending before reforms to the health care system bear fruit would mean reneging on the nation's commitment to provide standard health care for the elderly, the disabled and the poor.
These images provide standard optical visualization of the surface but provide no subsurface information.
Business process modeling languages provide standard ways of presentation and communication between different stakeholders.
In North America, heat pump manufacturers provide standard performance factors to their customers for the purpose of comparison between models.
