Word: conforming
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...summer vacation rapidly approaches, many students are foregoing shorts and sandals for pinstripe suits and loafers, recognizing that, unlike the classroom, the corporate world requires a certain dedication to appearance. Although some student wardrobes already conform to current business style, sometimes the right clothes are not enough...
...Michael J. Epstein '00, secretary of the Harvard Computer Society, defended the 5 percent of the student body who refuse to conform and purchase the digital demons...
...fine if the "sight of a big-busted blonde tickles [Oppenheim's] fancy," it is necessary that he recognize that by subscribing to an idea of beauty, he is sending a message to females that to be accepted, to be recipients of the male gaze, they must conform to the images that hang on his wall. JENNIFER C. NASH '01 March...
...cover images for Wet Wet Wet's latest album,10, conform somewhat humorously to this latter images, shamelessly contradicting the lively spirit of the music they introduce. The Scottish foursome look mad and bad, sporting black threads and dour expressions. But their songs are upbeat melodies, ranging from the catchy to the soothing, the brisk to the beautiful...
...supercurtly factual" permeated the magazine. "There Are 00 Trees in Russia," ran the title of a famous 1964 piece in Harper's magazine on TIME's obsessive fact-gathering and -checking systems, implying that the magazine had a sinister itch to make reality conform, through the use of plug-in facts, to the editors' preconceptions. Fair enough on occasion, but a little captious overall, in light of the magazine's scrupulous and expensive attention to accuracy...