Word: conform
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Pressure to conform to normative body types is certainly no longer restricted to athletes. Inside Abercrombie and Fitch, customers are greeted by a male chest—no face, no smile, just a chest. If a G.I. Joe from 1964 was blown up to full size, it would have a 32-inch waist and a 12-inch biceps. Today’s G.I.Joe has a 29-inch waist inches and 16 1/2-inch biceps...
...quality and academic advising. The College expansion would be further down the line—perhaps two decades from now, when the Allston projects are finished and the policies suggested by the curricular review have been implemented in full. Planning for additional students will not only be forced to conform to the new educational standards, but it will also encourage another phase of faculty growth, possibly better than the last. Reaffirming a commitment to internationalization would draw in professors from areas of the world currently underrepresented in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...ourselves how the notions and the codification of copyright, originally laid out in the Constitution and subsequently modified dozens of times to include such specific provisions as how many feet of bar space an establishment must have before they pay royalties on the music they play over their loudspeaker, conform with our intuitive judgments of the purpose copyright is to serve...
While grade distributions would vary among classes, the proposal calls for departments to conform to the grading guidelines and for departmental grade data to be made public. The new policy would also provide “clear guidelines...about the meaning of letter grades...
...part of an al-Qaeda plot, the New York Times quietly reported that U.S. intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaeda had, in fact, rebuffed the call by the Zarqawi network in Iraq to support a campaign of terror against the Shiites. Al-Qaeda itself, it seems, is reluctant to conform to Doran's view of its "attitude toward sectarianism...