industrial standard
121Commissioners Standard Ordinary Mortality Table — An actuarial table used to compute the minimum nonforfeiture values of ordinary life insurance policies. The Commissioners Standard Ordinary (CSO) mortality table reflects the probability that people in various age groups will die in a given year …
122the Dow Jones Industrial Average — UK US noun [S] (ABBREVIATION DJIA™, DJI, also the Dow™, also the Dow Jones, also the Dow Jones index) STOCK MARKET ► a US stock market index (= system for measurin …
123Gold Standard — A standard defining a national currency in terms of a fixed weight of gold, and allowing a free exchange and trade of gold. Until the nineteenth century, most of the countries maintained a bimetallic monetary system, in which national monetary …
124Indian Standard Time — (IST) is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka, with a time offset of . India does not observe daylight saving time, (DST) or other seasonal adjustments, although DST was used briefly during the Sino–Indian War of 1962 and the… …
125Hamilton Standard — Hamilton Standard, a famous aircraft propeller parts supplier, was formed in 1929 when United Aircraft Transport Corporation consolidated Hamilton Aero Manufacturing and Standard Steel Propeller into the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation.… …
126Matsushita Electric Industrial — Panasonic Corporation Unternehmensform Kabushiki gaisha (Aktiengesellschaft) ISIN …
127Copper Standard — Speculation that China is stockpiling copper, and other metals, in an attempt to diminish its reliance on the US dollar. Ambrose Evans Pritchard wrote in The Telegraph: Hard money enthusiasts have long watched for signs that China is switching… …
128Nevada Industrial Switch — Locale Near Lake Mead, Nevada between Apex (UP Milepost 352) Pabco Gypsum Mine Dates of operation Before 1997– Track gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) …
