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Ladd and Casey were working to conform diligently with government requirements...
...like to say I learned something from them. I’d like to say that I saw a telling despair in the way the vegetarian meatballs felt compelled to masquerade as real meatballs, subsuming their own identity in order to conform to the greater will of the masses. I’d love to say that the way in which these camouflaged balls of sorghum ruined dinner for red-blooded Americans like myself time and time again was somehow educational...
...rules. But the city's unilateralist approach to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) puzzles a senior hospital administrator from Shanghai's Huangpu district. A month ago, visiting experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Shanghai would relax its superstringent standards for diagnosing suspected SARS patients to conform with international norms. That should have caused the city's tiny caseload of suspected SARS patients to increase substantially. But just a couple of days after the WHO's announcement, the hospital administrator was curtly informed by local health-bureau officials that the standards would not be changed. Then, last week, after...
...currently, the office is working hard to finish up changes in the grading system—recalculating each student’s GPA to conform to a four-point scale and notifying each student of this change...
...Harvard’s rules now conflict with the definitions adopted by the National Association of College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) in September 2001, which prompted Harvard to try allowing its Early Action candidates to apply elsewhere Early Decision. NACAC’s written policies require that its member colleges conform to its definitions or risk expulsion from the organization...