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...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...
...years doctors believed that the best treatment for an obviously intersexual newborn was a swift one. The reproductive system and genitalia were surgically refashioned to conform to one sex or the other. (In practice, this often meant deciding that the child should be a girl because, in the indelicate phrasing of the surgical world, "it's easier to make a hole than build a pole.") The goal was to minimize the amount of time the child spent with a nonstandard body in the hope that he or she would find it easier to develop a conventional sense of gender...
...limited cost in American lives and treasure. Even some Republicans concede that the strategy depends on things going well in Iraq. But the renewed escalation of violence there, combined with the mounting uncertainty over its political future, suggest the situation on the ground in Iraq may not conform to the President's reelection script...