Word: conform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the old distribution system, students could, for example, fulfill a science requirement with an elementary math course. Under General Education, students conform to the spirit as well as the letter of the law. Its success in accomplishing this conformity is reflected in its acceptance by the undergraduate, to whom its objectives have become as familiar as the term "gen ed" itself...
...Busch faces complicated pricing and distribution problems. The company charges its wholesalers $2.46 per 24-bottle case, yet it makes only 14? profit. The rest of the average $5-per-case retail cost of Budweiser goes for retailers' and wholesalers' markups, steep state and local taxes. To conform with varying local liquor laws, Anheuser-Busch has to use some 600 different labels, packages and bottle caps...
...decision outlined the limits of federal control: "The right to travel . . . is a natural right subject to the rights of others and to reasonable regulation under law. A restraint imposed by the Government of the United States upon this liberty therefore must conform with the provision of the Fifth Amendment that 'No person shall be . . . deprived of . . . liberty . . . without due process...
...firmness and the standard of moral principles." He explained simply: "In every one of our well-ordered communities, there are a lot of people who don't believe in their hearts in the rules and the laws that are there, but they find it more convenient to conform . . . And it may possibly be the case that the Soviet Union, after this experience of trying to buck everything, may be feeling that it may be more convenient for them to conform to some of the rules and practices of a civilized world community." Vigilance with Hope. Since the West...
Frank tried to conform to the terms of the will: "I had it all figured out that I'd go after a job each year about May 15 and be through before Christmas. I didn't want to be working on Christmas. I decided that if I liked a position, I'd stay, but if I didn't, I'd move on." He moved on and on for the next 28 years. He got jobs as a census taker, factory worker, salesman. Once, during the Depression, he worked his way around South America...