Word: edicts
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...that requires them to wear black shoes with no white Nike swooshes or other logos. Johnson will be scoping their feet. Over the past few years, officials have relied on arena security to let them know when a team is going on the court to warm up, ignoring the edict that they stand near the sidelines before the players make their way out. This year, there will be no more lounging in the locker room. "He's made it perfectly clear," says Crawford. "Here are the work rules, buddy." To the military man, it's all about example. "How hypocritical...
...Kerala are made mostly out of a resource requiring zero fuel: mud. The buildings often lack doors and have awkward gaps between the bricks to facilitate cooling. Baker’s team, the Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development associates and follows Mahatma Gandhi’s edict that all materials be found within a five-mile radius: wood, bamboo, stone, cactus milk, pig urine, and recycled bottles, to name a few. The result is cheap, safe, high-quality, and environmentally friendly housing that appears to simply grow out of the ground...
...period often romanticized in fiction through narratives of imperial bravado. But this won't do for Ghosh, a veteran postcolonialist. He instead depicts India as it most likely was under the thumb of Britain's East India Company. Its once bounteous countryside is now run by Company edict, with farmers ordered to grow poppies to feed colossal opium factories, in whose noxious environs even monkeys slump in "a miasma of lethargy." Their fields given over to drug cultivation, thousands of starving, impoverished villagers leave for new pastures as indentured labor in Mauritius, a place so remote that it is thought...
...line with Obama's "no drama" edict, Nugen is one of the most even keeled political operatives you'll ever meet. He's not a yeller and can sometimes seem mellow to the point where people think he's not paying attention. "Most people throw very, very sharp elbows to get a seat at the table and that's not Matt's style," says Brad Queisser, who met Nugen working at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 1998 and is now a vice president at mCapitol Management. "He's quiet so people underestimate him. Underestimating him could be the biggest...
...Japanese citizens oppose changing the constitution to allow the nation to establish a military. Such a change would overturn the government's policy of not having a traditional military, an edict that was established following the end of World...