Word: tailoring
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...either to ensure all students graduate with a common body of knowledge or to emphasize the “real-world applications” of a liberal arts education. Since our new General Education follows the latter, utility-based model, the classes selected by the transitional committee should tailor themselves to the needs of students...
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College, Perlstein wrote, is no longer a place for creative exploration, but rather for infantilization by highly scheduled student bureaucracies where students tailor their fun for their resumes...
...Templeton was actually pressing Graham to modernize his ministry, make it more commercially viable. What could be more tempting - to a rising preacher trying to reach young people, a preacher who stressed being approachable and relevant - than to tailor his theology to the tastes of the times, especially if the latest scholarship allowed wider appeal? But for Graham this was not an option. He felt that he could either believe the Bible or leave the ministry. "It was not too late to be a dairy farmer," he concluded...
...stock taker in a clothes maker. He quickly proved a talented operator, winning a promotion for himself and the white manager, a Mr. Bolton, who took him on. A grateful Bolton began to sell offcuts and soiled cloth to Maponya, who set up his own tailor and sold clothing on credit. The authorities closed that business - despite the best efforts of South Africa's first black law firm, established by Mandela and Oliver Tambo - but not before Maponya had built enough capital to set up a dairy in Soweto...