The slow process of enacting European standards, on everything from the environment to food safety, was designed for a stable world, not tumultuous revolutionary change.
"In these times, with what's demanded and expected of the schools, the standards on everything have gone up".
The reader quickly has the sense that her mother's standards of doing everything according to plan have created in Annie a felt but not quite articulated aesthetic - different from her mother's but equally powerful - and that this difference in taste is added to the other, more common rivalries of mothers and adolescent daughters.
When capital also is entitled to buy the government, that same government that might in some way create the basic standards of behaviour, everything from child labour to environmental protection, to workplace safety, to minimum wages that are consistent with the cost of living… Eventually it's going to get to the point where it's so fuckin' bad that people are going to throw a brick".
When capital also is entitled to buy the government, that same government that might in some way create the basic standards of behaviour, everything from child labour to environmental protection, to workplace safety, to minimum wages that are consistent with the cost of living… Well eventually it's going to get to the point where it's so fuckin' bad that people are going to throw a brick".
She discovers in her own writing a vivid way of seeing and relating feeling that enlarges and grounds the standard account of everything from prenatal classes to morning sickness – "the illness with the false name... a way of protecting the foetus from toxins.
Indeed, at the time the lack of standards for everything from weights and measures to electricity — even the gallon, for example, had eight definitions — threatened to overwhelm industry and consumers with a confusing array of incompatible choices.
Today on the wards, there are set standards of treatments for everything: pneumonia, asthma, heart attacks.
Its real justification has nothing to do with the impersonal and impartial standards of morality, and everything to do with the place in the agent's life of the person he chooses to rescue.
