1.  Optical discs are soon likely to become the standard means of storing multimedia information.

2.  And to make those pieces searchable across databases, companies will have to establish a standard means to identify the piecemeal content.

3.  A completion bond is the standard means to assure investors that a film will be completed and delivered to a studio for distribution even if it runs over budget.

4.  A completion bond is the standard means to assure investors that a film will be completed and distributed even if it runs over budget.

5.  Officials said the FBI determined that the anthrax was fresh by radiocarbon dating, a standard means of estimating the age of biological samples.

6.  It gives an answer in eight hours, vs. the months needed for the standard means of detecting low levels of prions in tissue, Cohen said.