Sourdough in particular isn't standardised: every loaf is slightly different.
"We standardised nuclear plants like Ford did the Model T".
Only large semiconductor companies had the resources to design and manufacture such chips, which meant that standardised circuits dominated.
Once the professors have reduced their grades to an absurdity, and rendered that particular currency worthless, other units of account will necessarily spring up to take its place: recommendations from professors, "personal essays", interviews, standardised tests—areas in which students from the most inflated universities happen to excel.
Rankings spread like wildfire on the web: some have been cited online more than a million times.The best indices are meticulous (PISA, for instance, combines dozens of carefully standardised sub-measures and raises statistical caveats).
Yet as production costs have fallen, vendors can wrap features around ever-cheaper standardised chipsets to hit ever-lower target prices.
The bonds are callable, to reflect the prepayment risk of the underlying mortgages.In this section The global gusher The three Scrooges The Rip van Winkle of risk Sweet success A Danish model in Aztec dress Shifting sands ReprintsDenmark's approach allows mortgage-backed securities to be standardised into large pools, which makes them more liquid and attracts investors.
He has standardised school tests, curbed the power of the 32 school boards, ended "social promotion" (by which pupils automatically move on to the next grade whether they have reached a reasonable standard or not) and abolished lifetime tenure for school principals.
This summer the new arrangements will be standardised and extended to most police forces.So far, results have been good.
Because the fruit is roughly the same size and shape, shipping and processing can be standardised, scaled up and made super-efficient.
