Word: compact
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Those in attendance included sisters belonging to one of the three Harvard sororities sponsoring the event and individuals who belonged to organizations that signed the Hazing Compact, which pledged to create and encourage an atmosphere of social responsibility and respect for human dignity, as well as to recognize the dangers of hazing...
...even as he described the problem, Obama offered little hope of exacting justice for past violations of the social compact. Instead, he asked the country to look forward, to an era of new regulations that will prevent a repeat of these failures. And he repeated again the outrage that most Americans now feel, with a little levity to lighten the mood. "I'm choked up with anger," he said, to cover for his coughs. It was a fleeting laugh for a nation steaming with fury...
Photo Finish. Canon's new $99 SELPHY Compact Printer, the CP780, promises to be faster and have better image quality than its predecessors. It has a 2.5-inch LCD screen to preview pictures, and you can outfit it with a Bluetooth adapter, which lets you send pictures from your cell phone to the printer...
...reduction policy," says Yao Jie, deputy secretary general of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. While domestic brands accounted for 26% of the market last year, their share climbed to 30% in January, Yao says. Chery Automobile Co, the highest-selling Chinese automaker and manufacturer of the popular QQ compact, says it expects to increase sales by 18% this year...
Nowhere does it stretch further than in the Casco Viejo, Panama City's quaint, compact, colonial-era Old Town. Dating from the early-16th century and surrounded on three sides by the Pacific, the Casco - as it is affectionately known by locals - was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and served as the backdrop for much of the action in the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The Casco's appeal is clear: grand cathedrals, fountain-filled plazas, timeworn cobblestone streets, even a bullet-scarred Presidential palace, which was attacked during the 1989 U.S. invasion...