Word: standardize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...navigating some dreadful dialogue, doesn't make a misstep; Norton executes his usual business of revealing little but threatening plenty; and Ehle, her head shaved as a cancer patient, deftly underplays her function of providing the poignant feminine touch. But by the the movie's climax, which discards the standard sibling shootout for bare-knuckles barroom machismo, and throws in the instant insanity of a secondary character that nearly stokes a race riot, Pride and Glory has waived all rights to a dispassionate verdict. It's glum and goofy enough make to We Own the Night, the requisite serioso...
...numbers. Vaccines can only be completely effective if everyone is vaccinated, thereby eliminating the possibility of anyone catching or spreading the disease. The same logic should apply to the HPV vaccine. As the HPV vaccine is relatively new––and is not part of the standard battery of child vaccinations––it is unrealistic to expect that all females will have the vaccination any time soon. Broadening the vaccinations to include anyone at the appropriate age regardless of gender is a necessary step to reduce the spread of HPV.While men cannot...
...with George Orwell as one of the century’s literary saints—a valiant crusader against thuggish, inhuman totalitarianism. But Solzhenitsyn’s legacy needs to be put in perspective. Despite his much-vaunted heroism, he failed in many ways to measure up to the standards of either a great writer or a great man.A quick glance into the biographies behind the marbled busts of the literary pantheon is enough to reveal an abyss that separates these two distinctions. The debauched aesthetes of the 19th century, intoxicated with les fleurs du mal and the Baudelairean myth...
...jumped 35.8 percent in Harvard’s last fiscal year. While the returns fell far short of last year’s exceptional 23 percent growth, the gains still compare favorably given that they come during a bear market that has seen the S&P 500 index, a standard baseline for stock-market performance, drop more than 13 percent over the same period. The 8.6 percent gain puts Harvard comfortably in the top 5 percent of peer investment groups as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service and far outpaces the group’s median return...
...test would clear their names. Bad idea. In the second test, this time administrated by the only Japanese facility recognized by the World Anti-Doping Agency, samples from both brothers tested positive. Professor Shohei Onishi of Keio University said last week that the tests had found five times the standard amount in Roho's sample, and double that in Hakurozan's, adding that that the only explanation would be directly smoking the substance. "Second-hand smoke or medicine are 100% out of the question," he said...