Word: elasticize
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Schoenberg's famous twelve-tone system liberated music, not from tonality as is commonly claimed, but, less ominously, from the ancient laws of harmony. His system represented not the loss of all order but the penetration to a simpler more elastic and potentially liberating order.
The astronauts who make the second, third and fourth landings will carry a far more sophisticated payload called ALSEP, for "Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package." It features a magnetometer to measure the moon's magnetic field, an ion detector to study charged particles reaching the lunar surface, a mortar...
Elastic Rules. In one effort to limit such legerdemain, the Securities and Exchange Commission expects within a week or two to tighten the disclosure rules for companies seeking to float securities. Companies will be required in registration statements to divulge their sales and pretax profits for each line of business...
Welcome as such facts will be to investors, the new SEC rule only reaches the foothills of a Himalayan problem. Accounting practices, on which laymen rely as a warrant of truth, have grown increasingly elastic. Tax laws give companies great latitude in deciding how to treat both assets and costs...
The most common disagreements arise when experts are pressed to take a third step away from the defendant's present condition. With few exceptions, they are asked to decide whether his mental state during the crime made him fit the legal definition of a word which few psychiatrists use...