standards

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District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai criticized the arrangement between ApolloMD and the physician group it created to operate in Oregon, which he said didn’t reach the standards of the new corporate-medicine law.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

But allowing China’s best firms to hire, train, and pay American workers according to U.S. standards could create the basis for fair competition.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Many states set higher standards than the federal government.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

He was allowed to update his register via the "rectification" procedure without sanctions, with standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg concluding it had been an "inadvertant" breach.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Only a third of one percent of Soviet women attended universities at this time, so the education level of many of Marina’s recruits was off the scale by ordinary standards.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein