Word: conformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wong's thesis is a quilt depicting the pressure that media images place on women to conform to "an impossible ideal," she says. "It's mainly dealing with the media creation of ideals of feminine perfection...
...stop to all this. By forcing students to take responsibility for their actions, he is doing what a lot of other embattled but less courageous administrators should have done long ago. No longer will violations of university rules go unpunished. No longer will administrators and faculty be forced to conform to the political calendars of those they are trying to teach. Clark is to be congratulated...
...dogmatists on the left use terms like "self-hating Jew," "Oreo," "banana," "coconut," "racist" and other labels designed to put people in line, to make them conform to established expectations. This damages democracy, and wreaks havoc on the idea of liberal education...
...state acts contrary to the American idea of what's right, we have the legal authority (and its corollary, a moral imperative) to limit the influence of the "immoral" state. The frightening result is a government that thinks it has the moral duty to destroy states that do not conform to its idea of world order. That's the sort of "stability" Bush's new world order would bring to the postwar international arena...
Although Layzer's methods don't generally conform with those of his more conventional colleagues, other professors who know him say they don't think any less...