"If you were to put standard-sized furniture in these homes, it would look odd; the scale would be off, and it would look cheap," said Debra Drake, design consultant in Montgomery County for Kreiss Interior Design, a California-based concern that sells big furniture for big houses.
It warns progression along this route must however avoid the mistakes made by some federations of academy schools that grew too far and too fast and put standards at risk.
These bills will set up systems that should have been set up decades ago to assess chemical toxicity and put standards in place that encourage the development of safe products.
While Microsoft often shied away from putting standard JavaScript benchmarks on it screen and argued that "real world" performance was more important, it now proudly put the usual Kraken, Octane and SunSpider numbers on the screen.
IT managers spotted these developments and gradually brought them into line with corporate policy–shutting down some parts, putting standards in place in others and adding new levels of security and management.
The Kenyan government legalized chang'aa in late 2010 with the goal of cutting down on poisonings and deaths by putting standards in place.
"People who give the appearance of being perfect people put that standard of perfection on themselves and they'll put that standard on you," said Ms. Whelchel, who played Blair on the television series "The Facts of Life".
"We have put in place standards, published curriculum guides, offered professional development, fought for and won more resources," he said.
As the IMF chief Christine Lagarde put this standard wisdom laconically in Davos: "The market sorts things out, eventually".
From the menu, the crab-meat cocktail, a generous portion of lump crab meat, put the standard shrimp cocktail in the shade.
