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Capital Research engaged in directed brokerage—a practice American Funds said was “consistent” with SEC regulations—until recently, when it halted the practice to conform with the proposed SEC rule change, according to a statement on its website...
...being thrown summarily out of work, particularly teachers, several thousand teachers and university professors. And it was to fix that particular point that we adjusted how those were handled in early April. That was only after I had spent two months trying to get the de-Baathification committee to conform to our original policy...
...Washington Post that seemed to undercut his words. President Bush, asked whether he signed off on any memos that might have loosened the rules of interrogation, said he did not recall seeing any such documents and that "the authorization I issued was that anything we did would conform to U.S. laws" and international treaties...
...green attempts at making movies occurred when she was a sophomore at the College in a musty room in the basement of Sever Hall for the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Since then, Nair has built an international reputation as a gifted independent filmmaker who declines to conform to the mainstream film industries of either Hollywood or Bollywood, the booming South Asian commercial film industry that produces as many as 800 motion pictures a year...
...backtrack in favor of civil unions, in which same-sex couples would receive all the benefits of straight marriage without the name of “marriage”—a bizarre semantic gambit which, though better than no rights for gays and lesbians, would certainly not conform to the correct standard set out by the court. Perhaps the most egregious suggestion—made by conservatives in Massachusetts and the nation as a whole—was that the constitution itself (federal or state) be amended to ban same-sex couples from marrying. There is a kind...