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Late last year he began to turn United's sleepy headquarters into a hotbed of dealmaking, at least by the standards of suburban Georgia.

It's been a particularly bloody week even by the standards of Tijuana, a key transit point for drugs trafficked to the United States.

They then tested the system with a variety of cells and tiny beads, including some that were large by the standards of optical tweezer work.

Yet even by the standards of modern news, it is unusual to see such contradictory headlines about the same piece of research.

EVEN by the standards of French business, from which politics is rarely absent, it was an outrageous plan.

By the standards of previous cycles, residential construction should be nearing the bottom.

Despite the recent boom, the stock market is still a relatively small part of the economy, even by the standards of emerging Asia.

None of it was outrageous by the standards of China's nouveau riche.

BY THE standards of any previous boss of Coca-Cola, Neville Isdell is remarkably enlightened.

By the standards of her family, a spot of diplomacy in Berlin is not particularly exotic.

The Americans in the Korengal, heroes by the standards of any warrior culture, are not especially religious or patriotic.

Knowlton, who was thirty-one, was a "freethinker" and, by the standards of the Berkshires, an unusually adventurous soul.

Kaz's family should content themselves with the hovel, because by the standards of Hiroshima after the bomb, it was a mansion.

Even so, by the standards of Poland's governments in the past, and of the rest of Europe now, the present lot look pretty good.

Elsewhere, inflation is still modest by the standards of emerging economies. But pressure is building.

Fannie Mae built up a balance sheet whose overall size was large even by the standards of the US economy and US Treasury.

The storms, while severe by the standards of recent years, are not out of ordinary by global standards.

Elsewhere, inflation is still modest by the standards of emerging economies.

By the standards of the time, they had social structures with a sizable middle class.

Ms Bashir's father was rich by the standards of the region and this helped her, unusually, to go to medical school and graduate as a doctor.

If, however, you stick by the standards of the precepts, then as the Buddha says, you are providing unlimited safety for the lives of all.

Although Wendi later described living conditions as "very, very poor, " by the standards of the day, they led a white-collar life.

So far, so normal, by the standards of America's hyperactive east coast power elite.

But, by the standards of its old ethos, Apple is much more open than one would ever have thought possible.

By the standards of the 1950s or 1960s, most of today's luxury cars are fuel-sipping, unassuming rides. By the standards that the U.

In fact, by the standards of the state-owned enterprises, China Mobile is quite generous.

The yuan's trading is tightly controlled and its movements are tiny by the standards of most global markets.

Even by the standards of the subcontinent it was a colossal operation: Indian Railways employs a mere 1. 5m people.

That may help explain why protests have been slow to arrive and, by the standards of past decades, muted.

Danton never killed anyone personally, and by the standards of the merciless Maximilien de Robespierre he was doubtless an angel.

The Anglosphere has good opportunities for high-return investment, by the standards of advanced economies.

For a start, he is exceptionally youthful by the standards of Japanese prime ministers.

By the standards of the time, they had social structures that included a sizeable "middle class. "

The fund is small by the standards of the gold world, with an investment quota of $500m.

The vast windows, by the standards of commercial jets, also add to a feeling of space.

By the standards of some of the flashy self-promoters that grace our pages, Malone lives a quiet life.

By the standards of the 1970s, when inflation was in double digits and unemployment not far behind, today's plight is hardly grave.

Even by the standards of American airlines, which have all too frequently sought Chapter 11 protection, this is somewhat over the top.

The facilities, by the standards of other British independent schools, are ramshackle.

Even by the standards of the Web, it was a startling demonstration of the rhythm and mores of micro-blogging in China.

An inconceivable world, by the standards of Western imperialism, which takes the stage a century later.

But by the standards of the Greek and Roman worlds, Judea was a kind of insignificant backwater.

Even by the standards of hooray analyst coverage, this was extreme.

By the standards of modern-day encryption techniques, substitution cyphers are child's play.

Yet by the standards of the industry , Mr Fink retains a balanced lifestyle .

EVEN by the standards of China's relentlessly booming car market, the first three weeks of December in Beijing were frenzied.

By the standards of most twenty-first-century American or European magazine readers, yes.

Even by the standards of Brazil's north-east, Alagoas is scarred by poverty and extreme inequality.

By the standards of the UN, this was fairly tough stuff.

By the standards of the USA, China's twice-weekly, hour-long hit shows can appear tame.

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture.

By the standards of other European countries, the French pension reform is timid.

They cannot fairly be judged by the standards of long-established democracies.

Mark Zuckerberg is notoriously cocky, even by the standards of Silicon Valley.

The outlook, even by the standards of the aviation industry, is grim.

By the standards of America, China's twice-weekly, hour-long hit shows can appear tame.

By the standards of federal employees, that's a remarkably busy schedule.

Even more unusually by the standards of Japanese politics, she's female.

Even by the standards of the North Sea, the environment is wild.

By the standards of past recoveries, though, it isn't growing very fast.

Still, the one-day protest was restrained by the standards of recent Greek actions.

This is what one sees: high equity returns, by the standards of other established businesses, and occasional wipe-outs.

Ethnocentrism: It refers to negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standards of one's own culture.

Ms Merkel's statement was relatively mild by the standards of some colleagues.

Even by the standards of Indian executives, he's pretty busy.

By the standards of Shell executives, Wack was wacky.

By the standards of the Asian giants, Brazil, with 193m people, and Russia, with 142m, are minnows.

If this sounds rather piddling by the standards of, say.

By the standards of their European peers, French banks have a high exposure to Greek public and private debt.

BY THE standards of European scientific collaboration, 2m Euro ($3. 1m) is not a huge sum.

By the standards of some, his views on the importance of family, loyalty, and respect are antiquated.

That is not perhaps groundbreaking by the standards of other large economies.

Yahoo's $19. 5 billion market cap is large by the standards of most leveraged-buyout candidates.

This is a large decline, even by the standards of this wildly erratic series.

That goes some way to explaining why those years were chilly by the standards of the 2000s.

That was already high by the standards of the previous 25 years.

The job losses are unremarkable by the standards of past recessions.

By the standards of the 1930s, this problem has been solved.

It's true that, by the standards of today's open-source computing world, Apple's platforms are still very much closed.

By the standards of past centuries he has got off lightly.

By the standards of the 21th century , the learned person today will probably become ignorant by that time .

By the standards of continental Europe, jobless benefits in America are quite mean relative to wages.

The firm is unusually powerful, even by the standards of former monopolies such as EDF in France.

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American profits look high by the standards of the past 20 to 30 years.

Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world.

Life expectancy in China is high by the standards of developing countries and is likely to go on rising.

This is easy money by the standards of the brutally competitive car business.

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