Word: uniform
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Inspired in part by a series of Pulitzer prizewinning articles that appeared in the Wall Street Journal last year, Congress is investigating medical tests with an eye to improving federal control. Within a few months, lawmakers will consider legislation, recommended by the Centers for Disease Control, to set up uniform proficiency standards for laboratories. At Senate subcommittee hearings on the subject last month, Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan declared, "Faulty lab procedures can have devastating consequences for the unsuspecting...
Some tempers cracked under the strain of the early hour, letting out signs of patriotic fervor. "That's an absurd rule. Isn't that what the Revolution was about?" said one man, angered by the demands of a security officer in 18th-century uniform that he stay behind the ropes...
...University administration argues that a union is inappropriate at an academic setting because it would impose uniform strictures on the workplace that might disrupt research and study. But workers are as concerned about the workplace as their supervisors are, and having a union would improve its continuity. Now it is true that if workers have a strong voice on campus, they may agressively differ with the administration's standpoint, but that is not disruption, it is democracy...
Only on Opening Day are all teams and all fans equal, it's said. No wins, no losses, no slumps or streaks. Just the uniform prospect of 162 regular-season contests, the across-the-board possibility of post-season play, the common anticipation of endless summertime...
...fabric that it bursts open like a just discovered treasure chest. The waist rises on a short black leather skirt, but the hem falls irregularly. A raincoat is made of polyester that feels and falls like inked paper. One pantsuit in atomic-orange wool knit looks like a drill uniform for fashion insurrectionists. Another pantsuit in silk clings and flares in the jacket, rides the waist, then blossoms out in the cuffs, looking, in its mad dappling of colors, like a loft painter's drop cloth. "Everything is so much the couture look, the expensive look, now it's time...