In our worship of the machine, we chose to exempt it from rudimentary standards of facticity and decency.
— SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act to give a policy backbone to his belief that goods that were not produced under "rudimentary standards of decency" should not be "allowed to pollute the channels of interstate trade".
The Luxury Gondola, Yabuli, China China's burgeoning ski industry has been criticised by visiting western skiers for its rudimentary standards, but as more and more western companies move in and the wealthy elite demand more, there's a luxury end to the market too.
Horowitz argues that Tarbell failed to follow even the "most rudimentary standards of computer forensic analysis". Highlighting a number of inconsistencies he found, Horowitz asked for more information from the government.
Today, the RSPCA is on a mission - to prove to me that its 'higher-welfare' system (favourably presented in the report, of course) is superior to the industry's queasily rudimentary base standard.
The laws fail the far more rudimentary "rational basis" standard of the Fourteen Amendment because they provide women with information so selective that it leaves any reasonable layperson with a false impression of the relative safety of abortion and childbirth.
The incident is rudimentary by hacker standards.
Medical care, if rudimentary by American standards, was free.
The films include "Chantilly Lace," the sole Top 10 hit by the Big Bopper (whose real name was J. P. Richardson), and are rudimentary by contemporary standards.
"One minute I'm thinking, There's nothing I can do, it's out of my hands, and the next I'm thinking, How can we set up some kind of commissary to feed them?" The prosthetics labs were rudimentary by his standards, and they gave him an impression of profound idleness.
