Word: tailoring
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...many ways, the AIDS-drugs issue was tailor-made for Castro, a strongman who harbors both an epic hostility to capitalism and a developed pharmaceutical industry. The Cuban leader once revered among Third World revolutionaries has become a rather lonely ideologue in the post-Cold War years, as the Marxists of yesteryear made their peace with globalizing capitalism faster than you could say International Monetary Fund. But the AIDS crisis has spawned a battle in which even the most resolutely capitalist governments of the poverty-stricken developing world see themselves ranged against the patents and profits of giant pharmaceutical corporations...
...Asked who he'd most like to work with, Rein had a ready reply: Diane Warren. That he named not a singer but a songwriter reflects his respect for the craft. To write songs is to tailor with music, Rein says. Right now, his style is definitely...
...senior women. This resulted in the exclusion of some of the most distinguished males, specifically two Nobel laureates who graduated in 1968 and 1969. We also presented data for junior scientists. These data showed very encouraging performance trends for junior women faculty. Contrary to Hopkins' claims, we did not tailor our methodology to a particular result; we simply followed standards commonly used in universities throughout the U.S. and Canada...
...bought that afternoon. There was also a bouquet of red roses for his wife in the car. Expecting him, Phyllis had displayed his new blue sheriff's uniform in the den. Derwin had designed it himself, with gold stars and braid, and he had been anxious for the tailor to finish it. His good friend and confidant Robert Crowder had brought it to the house. Friends and family had been watching TV, talking about the trip to Helen, Ga., where Phyllis and Derwin planned to escape before Christmas. Everybody was relieved; the election was behind them, the long battle finally...
Fortunately, New York has come up with a last-ditch solution--which, surprisingly, may be the wave of the future. Despite local community opposition, the New York power authority is racing to install 10 individual generators around the city, each capable of producing 44 megawatts. The system is tailor-made for New York, which is plagued by bottlenecks on its aging transmission lines that often make it hard to import power...