The company was started in 1939 in Maryland as Quality Courts United, a referral chain consisting of about seven motel owners.

During its early years, Quality Courts ' operations were entirely in areas of the U. S. east of the Mississippi River and portions of Canada.

Quality Courts began its efforts toward national coverage in 1966 when it opened a motel in St. Louis, Missouri and two in Texas at Houston and Arlington.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

Accreditation agencies outside the United States include the Association of MBAs ( AMBA ), a UK based organization that accredits MBA, DBA and MBM programs worldwide, government accreditation bodies such as the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ) that accredits MBA and PGDM programs across India, the Council on Higher Education ( CHE ) in South Africa, the European Foundation for Management Development operates the European Quality Improvement System ( EQUIS ) for mostly European and Asian schools, the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation ( FIBAA ), and Central and East European Management Development Association ( CEEMAN ) in Europe.

In the late 1980s the area was frequently in violation of multiple National Ambient Air Quality Standards established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ).

* According to Building on Baldrige: American Quality for the 21st Century by the private Council on Competitiveness, “ More than any other program, the Baldrige Quality Award is responsible for making quality a national priority and disseminating best practices across the United States .”

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has developed an Air Quality index to help explain air pollution levels to the general public.

The EPA has designated over 300 counties of the United States, clustered around the most heavily populated areas ( especially in California and the Northeast ), as failing to comply with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

** United Kingdom: Quality Wine Scheme

Mammography facilities in the United States and its territories ( including military bases ) are subject to the Mammography Quality Standards Act ( MQSA ).

In Europe's largest health market Germany the Institute for Quality and Economy in Health Services ( Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen-IQWiG ) is responsible, while it is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NICE in the United Kingdom.

In March 2007, Halifax Airport earned two first-place finishes in the 2006 Airports Council International ( ACI ) Service Quality Awards held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Although there were many individuals trying to lead United States industries towards a more comprehensive approach to quality, the U. S. continued to apply the Quality Control ( QC ) concepts of inspection and sampling to remove defective product from production lines, essentially ignoring advances in QA for decades.

In the United States, Water Quality Standards are created by state agencies for different types of water bodies and water body locations per desired uses.

The Quality Practice Award ( QPA ) is an award that is given to general practitioner practices in the United Kingdom to show recognition for high quality patient care by all members of staff in the team.

One of five undergraduate-only programs in the United States to hold such accreditations, Monfort is the sole business school to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the Office of the President of the United States and the U. S. Department of Commerce, the Timberline Award from Colorado Performance Excellence, and the Program of Excellence Award from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

* April 15-Canada and the United States sign the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

In 1998 the Supreme Court in Quality King v. L ' Anza found that first-sale doctrine applied to imported goods at least where the imported goods are first lawfully made in the United States, shipped abroad for resale, and later reenter the United States.

The Council on Environmental Quality ( CEQ ) is a division of the Executive Office of the President that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives.

The National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ) is a United States environmental law that established a U. S. national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment and also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality ( CEQ ).

Deprecating the past efficacy of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the United Nations Development Programme — as well as the actions of the former George W. Bush administration — Speth writes ( as cited in the TIME article listed in the " References " section ): " The climate convention is not protecting climate, the biodiversity convention is not protecting biodiversity, the desertification convention is not preventing desertification.

He has worked for many independent promotions across the United Kingdom, including the Frontier Wrestling Alliance, Real Quality Wrestling and One Pro Wrestling.

For example, in the United Kingdom Care Quality Commission's report in 2012 found that several NHS clinics were circumventing the law, using forms pre-signed by one doctor, thus allowing abortions to patients who only met with one doctor.

* Utz Quality Foods, Inc., a manufacturer of snack foods based in Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States

Also, 100 % of New Paltz's accepted freshmen class continues to come from the top 2 of 5 SUNY Quality Groups.

This work is supported by the Quality Code and other accepted benchmarks and guidelines.

The Institute of Clerks of Works and Construction Inspectorate hold the biannual Building on Quality Awards, and nominations are accepted from all involved in quality site inspection regardless whether they are members of the institute or not.

Also, Quality Inn accepted franchisees with existing hotels.

* At the ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2 meeting on 2007-04-24, a revised proposal for the script, now known as Tai Viet, was accepted " as is ", with support from TCVN, the Vietnam Quality & Standards Centre.

All franchised hotels are regularly inspected by a Quality Assurance Team to enforce brand standards and consistency.

The chain dominated the motel market, leveraged its innovative Holidex reservation system, put considerable financial pressure on traditional hotels and set the standard for its competitors, like Ramada Inns, Quality Inn, Howard Johnson's, and Best Western.

Quality restaurants, 4-star and 5-star hotels are mostly located in this district.

One of the bigger cases involved fastfood giant McDonald's claiming that it had originated the process of attaching unprotected words to the ' Mc ' prefix and was unhappy with Quality Inns International's intention of opening a chain of economy hotels to be called ' McSleep.

The chain dominated the motel market, leveraged its innovative Holidex reservation system, put considerable financial pressure on traditional motels and hotels, and set the standard for its competitors, like Ramada Inns, Quality Inn, Howard Johnson's, and Best Western.

Two hotels still in operation today opened in the 1950s: The Park Motor Hotel and the Quality Inn Fallsway Hotel.

Under his leadership the hotels earned an unprecedented two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards, and grew from four to forty U. S. locations.

Levels of accreditation vary: some of the institutions receive little outside oversight, and some may be fraudulent diploma mills, although in many jurisdictions, an institution may not use terms such as " university " without accreditation and authorisation, often overseen by the national government – for example, the Quality Assurance Agency in the UK.

It is a best-effort network without fundamental Quality of Service ( QoS ) guarantees.

Units cannot be upgraded to higher " Marks " ( improved versions of the same chassis ) without sufficient " Unit Quality ," determined by the unit's level and the player's Clout statistic.

Now, as Measure, Quality and Quantity though still distinct from one another are inseparable and in their unity comprise a specific Determinate Being: “ Everything that exists has a magnitude and this magnitude belongs to the nature of the something itself .” The indifference of Quantum is retained in Measure insofar as the magnitude of things can increase or decrease without fundamentally altering their Quality, and yet their essential unity nevertheless manifests at the Limit where an alteration in Quantity will bring about a change in Quality.

Other early variations included Falatin, Nefalatine, Twalaity, and Quality, with each roughly translated as slow river to describe the Tualatin River, or may translate as land without trees.

< p > To recover them is, Thomas Betterton's company, therefore, to their due Estimation, a new Project was form'd of building them a stately theatre in the Hay-Market, by Sir John Vanbrugh, for which he raised a Subscription of thirty Persons of Quality, at one hundred Pounds each, in Consideration whereof every Subscriber, for his own Life, was to be admitted to whatever Entertainments should be publickly perform'd there, without farther Payment for his Entrance .</ p >< p >— John Vanbrugh's notice of subscription for the new theatre </ p > He was joined in the enterprise by his principal associate and manager William Congreve and an actors ' co-operative led by Thomas Betterton.

AC Comics, as well as other minor publishers such as Verotik, have nonetheless published reprints of the original Quality and Fox stories without any legal action from DC Comics.

* This image shows the seal introduced by HES to combat claims by Nintendo that games sold without the Nintendo Seal of Quality could not be guaranteed to operate properly on NES hardware.