Word: bend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with film taken by nose- mounted cameras. Less than 10 minutes after a Weasel touches down, its film is rushed into one of a cluster of van-size steel boxes, bolted together at the edge of a runway, that serve as a photo intelligence center. Specialists wearing white gloves bend over light tables and peer through loupes to examine miles of black-and-white film as it rolls by. Most of the film is a dead gray wash -- desert sand -- but occasionally a white speck or a cluster of dark dots appears...
Implicitly recognizing the fallacy in their own argument, the officials turn to their alternative excuse: that an athletic program is "so ingrained as part of American college life that students and alumni alike have come to expect varsity sports at colleges." Agreed. Harvard officials point out that most schools bend the admissions standards far further. We agree again. But they have also claimed that some measure of preferential treatment is necessary to support a competitive Division I program. Here we must differ. We believe that if the price of "competitive" teams is lowering standards, we should be content...
Companies that are serious about moving women into the corner offices and keeping them there have to bend some old rules. Two firms based in the Washington area stand out for their willingness to do that. At Gannett, the media firm, 41% of the workers in the top four categories are women, as well as four of 15 members of the board of directors. At MCI, where 42% of the 20,400 employees are female, women hold 12% of the 350 top-management jobs, double the number three years ago. Both companies attribute their progress in part to the efforts...
...should bend its public policies to free time and resources for families with children. With male wages sagging and the divorce rate at 50%, it's hard to spin out a scenario in which large numbers of women have the option of staying home full time. The trick is to spread the burden around. Employers and government both have to pull their weight. This critical task of building strong families can no longer be defined as a private endeavor, least of all a private female endeavor. No society can afford to forget that on the backs of its children ride...
...however hardened I've become, I succumb to fashion's lure. I swore I wouldn't wear short skirts again: I have photos from the last age of miniskirts; I remember trying to bend and sit without total exposure, and I remember how cold it was. And yet, as I dragged out my winter clothes, my hems looked downright dowdy. I'm busy shortening them again. See what a betrayer is the fashion muse? I hate it. I love...