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...wave of new cardinals always means brisk business for Gammarelli; once his five seamstresses and one cutter, who work in two cramped rooms above the store, turned out 18 cardinal vestments at one time. To make sure all the garments conform to the church's centuries-old traditions, Gammarelli uses only the finest materials, carefully oversees the work. As a double check, he continually refers to a pattern book hand-painted in watercolors by his sister Maria...
Millikan noted that the board would be unable to make certain that the various private agencies conform to its standards. "One of the costs of my program," he admitted, "is that some of the ISYA groups aren't going to be very good...
...ethnic diversity of Algeria"; presumably, this would mean redrawing department boundaries so that Moslems would have clear control in areas where they were in the vast majority. These "institutions," said De Gaulle, will be valid only "until the day when the future decisive consultation of the populations will either conform, modify, or reject them...
Getting the Figure. Partly as a result of the paradox, questions were raised about the accuracy of the statistics. To get them, the Census Bureau makes a monthly sampling of 35,000 households in 330 areas specially selected to conform with national economic and population patterns. Interviewers check 75,000 to 80,000 people, about one-thousandth of the labor force. To everyone over 14 in each household they put several questions. The first: "What did you do most of the week?" If the answer is "worked," the interviewer goes no farther. If it is "nothing," the interviewer presses...
Radcliffe College will institute a uniform annual room rate of $460 per student next year at the same time that tuition charges are hiked approximately $200 to conform with Harvard's new total...