standard
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While the aviation industry has exacting safety standards for aircraft design and certification, there isn’t an international agreement on what qualifies as safe when flying in conflict zones.
ABC as a broadcast network is held to higher standard than it's streaming partner Hulu due to oversight by the federal regulator and advertisers, who may be skittish when it comes to racy programming.
From BBC
Allen has only used the procedure 32 times - "rest assured, we will not stop the show for a bee sting" - but it is now becoming the industry standard.
From BBC
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” was a rarity in describing a jobless man begging for change, but most jazz standards and popular songs stuck to the perennial themes of love and romance.
They found that standard methods for producing entangled photons can contain previously unseen topological structures.
From Science Daily
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