Word: conformity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pharmaceutical industry, the laser chip may be used to ensure that all pills conform to standards of chemical composition, rendering the current method obsolete, Belkin said...
...misery,” Dines said. Dines lambasted the very icons of American “slut culture,” from Britney (“the trash can of our culture”) to Pamela Anderson (“no woman has done more to conform to patriarchy than Pamela”). Even Sports Illustrated, generally not considered the raunchiest of magazines, earned her wrath. “They ignore women’s sports for 11 months out of the year, and then for one month we become the sport,” she said...
...several dozen times (this was, no doubt, to show she was no prude). A major theme of the evening: Pornography has invaded our culture to such an extent that even a woman’s behavior is altered by it. Porn causes a woman to feel immense pressure to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and sex appeal. Dines blames everything from hard-core pornography to mainstream magazine covers of models who are “blonde, female, and white…with a ‘fuck me’ look on her face...
...days later when, during a visit to the White House, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi reportedly told President Bush the episode was due to a "misunderstanding." But the next day, ministry spokesman in Beijing Liu Jianchao, told reporters that reports Yang had used the word "misunderstanding" didn't "conform with the facts...
...then, is that farmers need it. Why, I can’t quite figure out. But even if they really did need it, our concessions to farmers are already excessive. We already spend hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary farm subsidies to prop up American agriculture. Must we conform our schedules to farmers’ whims as well? Farmers should have to adjust their alarm clocks, not everyone else...