Word: conformal
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...problem is more than a matter of bad manners and bruised egos: Bolton's pattern of intimidation, they claim, was also aimed at distorting vital intelligence. Government sources tell TIME that during President Bush's first term, Bolton frequently tried to push the CIA to produce information to conform to--and confirm--his views. "Whenever his staff sent testimony, speeches over for clearance, often it was full of stuff which was not based on anything we could find," says a retired official familiar with the intelligence-clearance process. "So the notes that would go back to him were fairly extensive...
...commission's intelligence report, "No Holds Barred," was absurd [April 11]. The commission came nowhere near "assigning blame for the flawed conclusion that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." Where are the names of operatives and senior intelligence analysts who either covered up faulty conclusions or deliberately lied to conform to President Bush's plan to invade Iraq? More than 1,500 American soldiers have died in Iraq because someone blundered, yet no heads have rolled as a result of the White House's use of suspect or flawed information to instigate an unnecessary war. Until blame is placed...
...study abroad in a broad range of locales. Schools like Yale and New York University already recognize this. They ban students from traveling to dangerous areas within other countries instead of imposing blanket bans on countries themselves. The OIP and the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC) must either conform to these more reasonable and widely-adopted standards for international travel or provide a transparent explanation for why they will...
Because my roommates and I are fundamentally kind of lazy (hence, I suppose, the lack of post-graduate plans), we intend to base our central characters on ourselves and on people we know. While brainstorming over drinks, though, we realized that to conform to popular conceptions of Harvardians—and we are unabashedly aiming for a mass market with our book—our hero-students would have to be a lot more ostentatiously smart and accomplished than we are. It would be useful, for instance, if they knew Latin, and also kung fu. These are not accomplishments...
...when people pay attention to questions of technology policy, they don’t do so by virtue of morals, or even idle curiosity. They do so because they are surprised to find that the rules that govern the world behind their computer screen simply don’t conform to their basic intuitions about governance and ethics...