71.   African governments have consistently disagreed with their former colonial powers about what makes a fair election, arguing that Western standards should not apply to the continent.

72.   Akzo Nobel is promoting the joint venture as the first time contraceptives will be manufactured in Russia according to stringent Western standards.

73.   All that has to happen in a nation mixing modern cities and services equal to Western standards with widespread poverty and other social ills prevalent in much of Africa.

74.   And it already has warned the government that Ursus tractors must be adjusted to new Western environmental standards.

75.   Bangkok should implement Western standards concerning air pollution and environmental safety.

76.   But eight years later, the region still lags far behind western German standards.

77.   But by Western standards, the care provided by the huge Soviet medical system was shoddy and the hospitals grim and depressing.

78.   But the EU has been cautious about closer ties with a nation widely viewed as falling short of Western democratic standards.

79.   By Western standards, the students lead a grim existence, sleeping nine to a room on wooden beds with thin cotton pads for mattresses.

80.   By Western standards, violent crime is extremely low in Japan.