Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard faculty member's architectural firm--which designed the newly opened Cambridge Center Marriott hotel in Kendall Square--will go before a state review board early next month to face charges that the building does not conform to state handicapped access laws...
...calls social experimentation. Because "the Founding Fathers knew that . . . the power of the judiciary could be abused," said Reagan last fall, the framers crafted a meticulously worded Constitution whose instructions must be strictly followed according to the spirit in which they were first written, and not interpreted to conform to "anyone's personal view of utopia." Under this presidential reasoning, since the Constitution does not specifically mention, for example, abortion, the Supreme Court has no right telling anyone, including the states, what to do about...
Grants are not accepted by the University until they conform to academic rules, said M. Judah Folkman, professor of anatomy and cellular biology, who has received $300,000 to $600,000 a year since 1974 from a group of chemical companies...
...National League president, Giamatti will be responsible for scheduling games, hiring umpires and making their schedules, and ensuring that sales of franchises conform to league regulations...
...past and myth that is taking place under Ronald Reagan's shrewd symbolic leadership. For all the potentially sinister aspects of computer technology as a tool of surveillance, the brilliant new electronics can serve individuality in liberating ways. The era of mass production implied uniformity. People were said to "conform" in the way that products conformed to one another, each identical. Now computers, at the speed of light, can make distinctions among individuals. Computers can integrate the individual to the whole. So that, in a simple example, some people can choose where to work and when to work. More important...