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nonstandard

[‚nän′stan·dərd]

(ordnance)

Differing from specifications, conditions, or procedures that have been prescribed or established; for instance, weather conditions different from those assumed in firing tables are nonstandard.

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The deteriorating infrastructure of the country's highways, combined with greater traffic congestion, increased miles driven, and higher speed limits, has negatively affected private passenger auto claims frequency for both standard and nonstandard auto writers.

GOING DOWNHILL: Higher auto repair costs on physical damage claims, medical costs and personal injury protection claims are contributing to the nonstandard auto insurance segment having its worst year in close to a decade

Addressing this gap in the literature is important because of the increasing prevalence of nonstandard work schedules.

Child care assistance in the United States and nonstandard work schedules

Francois Michon points out that the labor regulations which define employment contracts often constrain them: nonstandard workers are not easier to lay off; it's just easier to change their hours.

Shining a light on the shadow

This process, currently under development by AESIP, will allow users to communicate directly with AESIP for nonstandard, noncataloged items and is most advantageous for logistics system users that are not GCSS--Army users.

The next generation: cataloging nonstandard items: as the Army converts logistics functions to Global Combat Support System--Army, Soldiers must understand the strategies for data cleansing, migration, conversion, and fielding

The primary device used was top-side adjustments or nonstandard journal entries to increase revenues or reduce expenses to inflate reported earnings.

Double-entry, nonstandard entries, and fraud

Bearing that in mind, the authors have chosen the works of writers of dialect fiction with a New England background, who actually did use nonstandard were/weren't as a vernacular feature in the speech of their New England rustic characters, i.

Nonstandard were and the nonstandard forms of the preterite negative of to be in nineteenth century new England civil war letters and literary dialect portrayals

Workers who refuse nonstandard shifts, or request schedule changes to avoid them, should be protected from dismissal or downgrading.

Outside the 9-to-5: when most of us are at home, at night and on the weekend, millions of people--many of them women with children--are at work

While nonstandard workers are found in all industries, they are most heavily concentrated in retail trade and services.

The Disposable Worker

Some large information-motivated trades may be executed with nonstandard settlement to avoid the limit-order book.

Nonstandard-settlement transactions

If, however, these arrangements are driven by employers' desires to reduce labor costs or if workers seeking regular full-time employment are forced to settle for nonstandard employment, such arrangements may fail to provide employees with the flexibility and economic security they require.

Nonstandard work arrangements: a challenge for workers and labor unions

Woods told the Board of Education that her school already uses one of the district-developed language programs for teaching students who speak nonstandard English.

NEW BILINGUAL EDUCATION PLAN OK'D

Incorporated in 1976, Universal Insurance Company is a North Carolina-domiciled insurance carrier writing nonstandard automobile and commercial lines of insurance.

The Seibels Bruce Group, Inc. Announces Universal Insurance Company Rating by A.M. Best Company