The board voted unanimously on Sunday to adopt a broad standard for evaluating votes.

In Connecticut, there are 10 broad mathematical standards for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

By a 6-3 margin the Court settled the issue, holding that parties cannot contract for a broader standard of review.

This may suit the trend to treat education as a local activity but quality assurance needs a comparison with broader standards.

Many others have even broader standards, like "obviously ill" and "needs treatment."

That would represent a fall in quality of life for those people, but not one which actually affects their broader standard of living.

The state agreed today to also use a broader standard, used for years to protect miners and quarry workers.

The report suggests that a broader standard using specific measures in even more areas would be a better tool to measure progress.

But he emphasized his group would fight efforts to make the settlement any sort of broad standard.

At the same time, for large banks, the regulators replaced 12 detailed categories of measurement with three broad standards.