“Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.” PeopleGivingShouldLittlesJobsAirMinesStandardsLaborShould HavePaidSafetyEnvironmentalProtectionCorporationsRegulationCrushedChokeFilthyEnvironmental Protection Author:Richard Trumka
“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.” SchoolAmericaTechnologyEconomyComfortStandardsScientistSafetyMilesCompromiseFuelVehicleEngineeringGallonsMitFuel Economy Author:Ed Markey
“Of course I’m going to learn from the greats—Ronnie Lott, Ed Reed, Troy Polamalu. But there’s a lot of unfinished work they didn’t do. I want to be the standard. I want to redefine what it means to be a safety.” WantMeanCoursesStandardsSafetyUnfinishedReedsUnfinished Work Author:Earl Thomas
“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.” WayValuesEconomyProtectSafeStandardsGoldSafetyStoresAbsenceFinanceSavingInflationSavingsBanking SystemMoney And PowerMonetary SystemGold StandardDeficit Spending Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.” MindFeelingsChristianPurposeCoursesBeliefWishSimpleMoneyMoralPowerStandardsConscienceSafetyOrthodoxDivisionMerchantsDichotomySimple Faith Author:Marshall McLuhan
“It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.” HumansWellsInspirationSeemsMotivationDifferencesBuildingDiseaseStandardsSafetyNotionObviousSpreadWell BeingHealthcareAirplaneTolerate Author:Sam Harris
“Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.” PeopleThinkingWantCountryInvolvedStandardsSickSafetyTablesFarmsProceduresFood SafetyFood Supply Author:Marion Nestle
“I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMightNamesSpaceKnow HowPlansConditionsProduceSafeStandardsSickSafetyCriticalHorribleProducersAnalysisPoisonZeroGravityAstronautHazardsNasaOuter SpaceFood SafetyZero GravitySafe Food Author:Marion Nestle
“Meat is produced under HACCP plans. Meat and poultry are required to be produced under standard food safety plans and they have been since the mid-'90s, and there are now fewer problems with meat than there used to be. That's on the USDA's side.” Has BeensProblemUsedSidesPlansStandardsSafetyUsed To BeMeatFewerFood SafetyPoultry Author:Marion Nestle
“There is no safety in hiding. Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, excellence and courage that distinguished their lives.” TryingYearsTogetherMemoriesJusticeSpecialBrotherStandardsPicksCommitmentSafetyExcellenceFallenMy BrotherHidingDistinguishedPricelessYears Together Author:Edward Kennedy
“Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.” IfsCompanyLeaderImagineStandardsSafetyPlantCorporateOperationsInvestorsManufacturingBribery Author:Eliot Spitzer
“For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.” MenStillsBookAgeEarthSciencePurposeDarkSimpleSunMoonStandardsDiscoverySafetyInventionPostsApplicationElectricityLampsRemarksDemonstrationPenniesDark AgesGenesisSteamScientific DiscoveryLeonardoBook Of Genesis Author:George Bernard Shaw
“There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.” YearsHas BeensMovingScienceThreeWaterEnvironmentAirCenturyProtectWasteStandardsSafetyDrinkingRaisedEnvironmentalProtectionAdministrationChemicalsThree YearsToxicFewerTwelveSite21st CenturyAssaultVigorousCleanersRight DirectionMoving InEnvironmental ProtectionDrinking WaterToxic WasteProtect The EnvironmentMoving In The Right DirectionClean Drinking Water Author:William J. Clinton
“Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.” IfsWayNeedsFirstsLooksLevelsPlayerFootballProtectHighestStandardsSafetyUsersSkullsHelmetFracture Author:G. K. Butterfield
“Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.” YearsFirstsStatesLastsMovingFireNew YorkStandardsSafetyLast YearCigaretteHistoric Author:Ed Markey
“We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.” SpaceRolesIndustryStandardsToolsSafetyMeetingsCriticalWorkplaceInspectionSpace ShuttleWorkplace Safety Author:Marc Garneau
“The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.” KnowsHeartPersonsProblemPoorSourceInternetStandardsFunctionSafetyInvestmentCriticalWidePlanningCodeComplexityReviewsRegimesInsufficientEntiretyDeploymentOpen SourcePoor Planning Author:Dan Geer
“New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.” TechnologyNeededAchievementStandardsToolsSafetyTechniqueCanadaInnovativeGreat Achievement Author:Marc Garneau