People familiar with the relationship between The Weekly Standard and its parent company told me that it had deteriorated in recent months.
Just days before the March crane accident in New York, representatives of the group that developed these safety regulations wrote to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and strongly urged her to "ensure this standard and its publication receive the immediate attention it requires".
What triggered fresh agitation about the minutiae of a row which most MPs admit is arcane - albeit symbolically important to Mr Blair's reputation - was a claim in the Spectator that Downing Street had attempted to "nobble" Sir Michael into denying claims made by it, the London Evening Standard and its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday.
The SEI is somewhat evangelistic; it produces a large amount of documentation around the standard and its application and also facilitates a number of software process improvement networks around the world.
The winning soup was declared the standard, and its chemical coordinates were programmed into the machine.
In this Age of Startups, Knight's Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is more than a logo.
In the US, however, a Martin production was regarded as the gold standard, and its rarity highly prized.
The 'Sorry' campaign's suggestion that the Standard and its journalists lost touch with London is a malicious invention.
The biggest revolution in home networks, though, is wireless Internet technology, the 802.11b Wi-Fi standard and its faster upgrades.
Spendthrift governments were forced to cut back.But the gold standard and its successor, the Bretton Woods system, eventually fell apart.
This is important because it may indicate a difference in the DOJ's thinking between Medicare's coverage standard, and its "medical necessity" standard for purposes of fraud enforcement.
