Word: conforms
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...dismisses them because they violate the axioms that he has chosen to live by. What exactly is “truth” and what does it mean “to know”? To Weinberg, truth is learned through observations, and we test theories by how they conform to those observations. To his critics, the very nature of who Weinberg is affects those observations, and thus they can’t be counted on to deliver the fundamental truth. That said, precise, specific and, above all, accurate examples of how cultures experience physical phenomena differently are hard...
...country founded by rebels and settled by refugees is a happily untidy place, slow to conform, quick to adjust. Another week passes, another adjustment: first came permission to laugh again, make fun of the President, shop; now comes the license to argue again--the "music of democracy," one House member mused last week. It was almost a relief to watch lawmakers who used to loathe one another make common cause in their loathing of John Ashcroft's antiterrorism bill. Did anyone actually mourn the death of bipartisanship? It was a bloodless phantom anyway: all lawmakers love their country and would...
...parties the social club holds this year will have to conform to College party regulations—including a bartender and Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) presence...
Most are trying variants on what the Dutch call gedogen--turning a blind eye. The authorities keep marijuana-possession statutes on the books to conform with a 1988 international convention that prohibits outright legalization and to avoid the political controversy of changing the law. But they opt for quite lenient enforcement. Last month police in Brixton started a six-month experiment: they will caution users on the spot and confiscate their dope rather than book them for prosecution. The cops expect to save at least five hours of police work per nonarrest, which they will devote to street crime...
...including inherited style, was discredited by the disaster of the trenches. The Modernist response was another battle cry: "Back to zero." Style for its own sake was a lie, like the official rationales for the Great War. What the new age demanded was that the appearance of any building conform to the trusty realities that construction might dictate. Those were usually flat roofs, exposed structural elements and sheet glass--a material loved for its associations with transparency and honesty. Mies called ornament "macaroni." He didn't mean it fondly...