Word: aligning
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While this move was seen by many to re-align Harvard with the policies at two other top law schools, Jacob Eisler, a second-year student, said he was concerned at Harvard’s willingness to conform...
...film financing deals are structured in Hollywood. Not unlike homebuyers facing tougher standards to get a mortgage, the people who greenlight movies are facing more stringent demands from their financiers. "All of the studios, if they want to get a deal done in this environment, will need to better align their interests with investors," says P. John Burke, a film finance lawyer at the firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld...
Brzezinski is right in demanding that Russia fully align with international cooperation and consensus, but at the same time the U.S. has not lived up to these standards much in recent years. How hypocritical is that? Imagine a separate New Mexico state electing a Russian-educated President and piling up Russian-supplied weapons. If a section of the population there, supported by U.S. Latinos, were to be assaulted by this Russian-focused regime, how would the U.S. handle it? This is not to say Russia should be left alone to deal with things the way that suits it best...
...Bush Administration has long sought to isolate Syria in the hope of forcing greater cooperation with U.S. Middle East policy. And France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to align French foreign policy far more closely with Washington's than his predecessor, President Jacques Chirac, had done. So why did Sarkozy show up in Damascus, Wednesday, as the first Western leader to visit Syria since 2005? Playing a diplomatic game that revives France's independent global standing even as it pursues some of the same goals...
...goals in mind. The first, was to align the College's structure to better correspond with the administrative offices of the FAS,” Hammonds wrote in an e-mail. “The second, was to strengthen the Office of Undergraduate Education in order to address the challenges of implementing the new General Education curriculum...