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In determining whether or not a reference toxicant test result falls "well" outside the expected range, the result also may be compared with upper and lower bounds for ±3S, as any result outside these control limits would be expected to occur by chance only 1 out of 100 tests (Environment Canada, 1990).
If your child was old enough to witness the candy bin caper and wondered why the woman was eating from the bin, you would have been perfectly within the bounds of propriety to say, "You are quite right.
The flippant headline "Kenya Catch Them" in the Aug. 11 "Today's Papers" is way out of bounds.
"Storm-trooper tactics," says Al Hunt ( Capital Gang ); "Overstepped the bounds," complains Morton Kondracke ( The McLaughlin Group ). Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift ( McLaughlin Group ) sees a supreme perversity--Starr is the one suborning perjury, she charges.
Nevertheless, regulations consistently focused more on defining the metes and bounds of the permissible than on prescriptive mandates, and their implementation was effected largely through the mechanism of “assurances”—commitments that institutions would faithfully safeguard the specified perimeters of acceptable conduct.