Word: accordant
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...greeted questions about the segregationist amendments with ambivalence. When Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott, for example, tried to head off the Stennis amendment with a more innocuous rider, Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow sent around a note saying, "Your amendment is Administration language." But, Harlow added, "other approaches would also accord with the President's basic objective-racial equality." The "other approach" was that of John Stennis...
...made that since in undergraduate schools a B-is sufficient for graduating Cum Laude, the same should hold true at the Law School. The practical effect of this suggestion would be that almost everybody would graduate with some kind of distinetion. This may well be a result in accord with "the changed mood of last year," but it is at war with the dictionary...
...Undergraduate education," accord-ing to Robert Friedel, a junior who worked closely with Magaziner last year. "had become something that was 'done to' the student" according to a set of imposed rules, and not an experience "directed to the student's individual needs...
...Knesset, Mrs. Meir reiterated her objections against Big Four peace plans ("There is no point in playing with formula and compromise suggestions"), endorsed the building of more Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and stressed that her government would settle for nothing less than a genuine peace accord in which the Arabs would accept Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state...
...predicament. She has aimed at the stars and settled for a cinder. Tesman, with his dusty burrowing in book after book, is not a spouse but a sedative. It is to Actor Peter Hansen's credit that he humanizes a library mole so that the audience can accord him the pity that Hedda withholds...