The Renewable Fuel Standard had passed with support from an improbably diverse coalition: environmentalists, who wanted to curb greenhouse-gas emissions; national-security hawks, who wanted to reduce reliance on foreign oil; and farm-state lawmakers, who wanted to boost the corn industry.
The New York Stock Exchange NYSEE) and the Nasdaq have brought in new listing standards, and Congress has passed the 130-page Sarbanes bill.
Failure to find the Higgs would not be the end of the theory in which it is embedded, known as the Standard Model, which has passed every test for 30 years.
When a laptop is manufacturer refurbished, the laptop has been maintained enough that it has passed manufacturer quality standards.
Beyond the world of autos, Congress has passed numerous laws establishing product safety standards, work safety standard, and environmental standards across the full range of American economic activity.
The Standard Model of particle physics, which has passed one test after another, rests on the beautiful idea that the forces of nature arise out of symmetries, which imply certain similarities between particles.
If we wait until a renewable energy standard or a broader energy bill has passed, we won't get to a climate bill until May or even later.
Only original full-length articles are taken into consideration, so to guarantee that the data collected in the TTD are supported by research works whose methods, results and conclusions are fully reported in a manuscript that has passed through a standard peer-review process.
We chose as our reference standard the Dräger Alcotest 6510 which has passed a Home Office testing protocol requiring error less than 10% in all readings 16 17 and is also an evidential device for criminal prosecutions in the USA.
This commercially available kit has passed FDA US Food and Drug Administrationn) quality assurance standards.
