Partners for Environmental Quality, for example, is working with a two-year-old Newark firm, Gibbons Consulting, that specializes in power pools.
They developed various new metrics — for how customers evaluate product quality, for example — that allowed designers and Six Sigma types to understand each other better.
And yet they preserve much of what makes those authors distinct — Borges's fussy, deliberately old-fashioned quality, for example, and Neruda's unfettered passion.
The government says that the figures are failing to pick up a rise in quality; for example, falling class sizes count as a decline in productivity.
Then you are left to get on with it, with some technical help of varying quality, for example on how to build a school, or how to procure IT.
Later in the 20th century Béla Bartók developed a very personal night-music style of distinctly macabre quality, for example, in Out of Doors (fourth movement) and in the Fourth String Quartet (third movement).
But while consumers may see some immediate benefits — in network quality, for example — they are not likely to benefit in the long run, some analysts and industry experts said.
In the end, the choice will have to be between another late bailout from Treasury funds, an intensification of the rationing of access which is already evident in rising waiting times, or a diminution of quality, for example by allowing some slippage against the strictures on staffing which were introduced after the deadly scandal at Mid-Staffs.
Jeffrey Siegal, an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin and an expert on indoor air quality, for example, argues that "plants are just not effective at getting rid of stuff in the air," and that, given the health risks of things like mold and moisture, "it's best to keep plants outdoors".
In the former respect there was an increase in the use of chords the particular type of dissonance of which lent them an unstable and a functionally ambiguous quality; for example, a chord that became of prime importance as a means of thickening the harmonic sound and of blurring the exact tonality of a musical passage was the augmented sixth chord.
