Word: elasticize
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The result of a recent case has shown that the practices of the Ad Board appear inconsistent with its stated purpose and endanger the possibility of just outcomes. Several weeks ago, a student was Ad Boarded for making 'prank' calls and placed on probation, a form of punishment which becomes...
To view his motives as purely pecuniary, one must also dismiss how astonishingly difficult the vault is, even for a master like Bubka. This is not always easy to appreciate, perhaps because there is something deceptively buoyant and elastic about the way a vault appears to unfold on TV. But...
"Listening to a piece of music is a highly elastic assignment," Levin explains, saying those who think the workload was light probably did not do the work.
So it is possible that this week will turn out to have been Forbes' 15 minutes of fame. But that has not kept the rivalry between Forbes and Dole from taking on the quality of shadowboxing. Both Forbes campaign manager Bill Dal Col and Dole campaign manager Scott Reed were...
Not since Joe McGinniss began dreaming up things that Senator Edward M. Kennedy might have thought, in The Last Brother (1993), has there been such an elastic and accommodating definition of nonfiction as Carcaterra's. Truth matters, but it has nothing to do with petty details. An author who wanted...