Word: adheresent
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Bell alleged that the Law School adheres to a set of "arbitrary" hiring criteria that have "had a discriminatory impact on qualified women and minority candidates."
But Spelling may be on to something. Network drama has been in a slump of late; the audience for realistic, multilayered fare (I'll Fly Away, Civil Wars) seems to be shrinking. The sleeper hit of the summer is ABC's Jack's Place, set in a fancy big-city...
Each of the seven different narrators who describe these two entities adheres to one particular image of the child; consequently, the different versions of the myth contradict each other. The most common descriptive voices belong to the Domingo family, and the narrative thread of the novel is Johnny Domingo. While...
Melville is most successful when she adheres to the commonplace. "Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water," for example, does not pretend to be anything more than nostalgia thinly disguised as fiction. Its wistful, reminiscent mood makes for good reading. "The Girl with the Celestial Limb," on the other hand, is...
The author adheres to several tenets. First among them, government is boring. Why? "The last person left awake gets to spend all the tax money," he writes. And government is morally wrong. "If enough people get together and act in concert," argues O'Rourke, "they can take something and not...