In the past ten or 20 years its economic performance has been respectable, but no better (or worse) than that.Take economists' standard measure of material progress: the rate of economic growth (chart 1).
Political intelligence may not meet the standard of "material" information when it is about broad trends in government policy.
Quality songs are what transformed Girls Aloud from reality TV nobodies of whom little was expected into hitmakers admired even by those who consider "pop" a dirty word, and Higgins intends to provide his new duo with the same standard of material.
Now it looks like the animated award may itself be following a downward path, despite the much-improved standard of material from Dreamworks Animation (Kung Fu Panda, How to Train a Dragon), Universal (Despicable Me), Laika and indeed Disney in recent years.
The properties of the prepared hydrogels are fit with the standard properties of materials which should be used for contact lenses.
The coordinator visited each site immediately before initiation of the study and used a standard set of materials (with particular emphasis on video and sound recordings) to train all staff involved in clinical assessment or clinical specimen sampling.
As Bradford De Long, an economist, writes in his forthcoming "History of the 20th Century Economy: Slouching Towards Utopia", most Americans today enjoy standards of material comfort that "were beyond the reach of even the richest of previous centuries.
The standards of material collected for G10K and other projects will vary according to the exigencies of collecting specimens, including ease and method of capture, availability of specimens, feasibility, tissue type, and target quantity and quality.
Defra is attempting to resolve these bitter differences between the MRFs and the re-processors and recently introduced a 'Quality Action Plan' designed to raise the standard of sorted materials.
Content analysis was used to analyse: frequency, characteristics and standard of the materials.
