Word: comporting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women-who-fret-and-drink-Scotch-in-New-York-or-California section. In the year since Helen Fielding's best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, a novel focused on a cocktails-and-cellulite-obsessed London editor, writers have continued to weigh in on how single women do, and should, comport themselves...
...that the University, as a private employer, embrace a concept of "living wage" that has been adopted only by municipalities and which has applied only to city employees and to entities with large municipal contracts. Should a large private employer like Harvard, whose employees live in many different areas, comport itself in relation to the cities which spend public funds to pay workers who likely live where they work...
...discover misfits between their providers' practices and their personal beliefs, and decide what to do about them. If such people would prefer not to pool their funds with the apparently less-moral Creatures who make up the rest of society, they should form health service organizations whose practices better comport with their beliefs. ELIZABETH STEIN '95 Albuquerque...
...sure how Jiang will comport himself in the U.S. In a meeting with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin last month in Beijing, he displayed much confidence and little arrogance, giving the impression that he has no desire to act as if the U.S. is an enemy. Yet Jiang has to watch his back: hard-line Premier Li Peng still has influence and supporters whom Jiang has to placate. But he has clearly proved himself a capable wheeler-dealer with one great advantage in China. "He is an opportunist," says a Chinese political scientist in Beijing, "because he is bereft...
Resistance has resulted in pitched battles at school-board hearings and within academia over the future of U.S. math education. Educational scholar E.D. Hirsch Jr. says opposition to the newest math is "suddenly making people wake up and say, It doesn't work, it doesn't comport with reliable theories, and we're making a mistake...