Word: standardizing
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...Hair: She probably does it herself. It didn't seem very professional, yet it was very fun and funky. Her look is an expression of herself and she does not adhere to a label or to a set standard of dress...
...department's heads vowed to accept the reforms detailed in the Christopher Report, which was compiled by a public-private panel following the Rodney King beating. One portion of the report called for "a new standard of accountability," and predicted that "ugly incidents will not diminish until ranking officers know they will be held responsible for what happens in their sector, whether or not they personally participate." Yet despite LAPD commissioner Bernard Parks' 1998 announcement that the department had met all of the Christopher Report's recommendations, the new report concludes that "regardless of the source, complaints all seemed...
...Universities have power through their licensing agreement so they can lend a voice and lend their power to helping workers improve themselves," she says. "We'll be able to raise awareness in that sector to create a higher standard and use that as a model for the whole industry...
That's why the Standard is hedging its bets, existing as much online as it does on paper. Its website, thestandard.com gets 450,000 unique visitors a month. Media Grok, the most popular of the magazine's 17 e-mail newsletters, critiques technology coverage in major news outlets. Grok's regular roastings of clueless tech reporters has attracted 150,000 readers...
...Standard is probably a sounder candidate for an IPO than some of the dotcoms it covers, even though editorial Web ventures have a tendency to slump on Wall Street in the long run. Battelle, a Wired veteran who saw that magazine's stock-offer bid crash and burn, is cautious. "I don't want to go public till I'm sure I have a company that will be here in 10 years," he says. That's a lifetime in Internet time. Still, a magazine that took only 22 months to become an institution has a good head start...