Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis budget recommends that the Commonwealth conform to the Federal Tax Reform Act of 1986, which eliminated many tax loopholes. "Forty-two of 44 states with a state income tax have plugged the loopholes for the wealthy. I would hate to be the one state that hasn't, "he said...
Last week, after a decade of wrangling, a U.S. district judge in Chicago ordered Amoco to pay $85.2 million in damages and interest, the largest penalty ever assessed in an environmental case. Amoco called the sum excessive, and France's President Francois Mitterrand said the damages awarded "scarcely conform to the extent of the disaster." Both sides plan to appeal...
Since 1958 yachtsmen around the world have informally agreed to compete every three or four years in the roughly 65-ft. boats called 12-meters (the meter designation refers to an abstruse architectural equation to which the craft must conform). But Fay proposed to vie for the Cup in a new 120-ft. K boat, a throwback to the majestic J boats used before World War II. In San Diego's light breezes, her soaring 160-ft. mast and other outsize features could give her a runaway advantage over existing defenders...
...overly impressed with paper credentials? An intellectually insecure candidate who genuflects before Harvard degrees or military uniforms may find himself spending four years in office wondering why a tumultuous world refuses to conform to the ersatz wisdom of his White House experts...
...addition, the elections were not held within a constitutionally-determined time frame, and the geographical distribution of candidates did not conform with a rule requiring proportional representation, the report stated...