Word: uniform
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Last year Barber sponsored a bill in the Undergraduate Council which recommended that men's and women's diplomas be made uniform...
Governors countered that the problems could be resolved. Working with the national Tax Association, they have been developing a simplified tax system. States would have to come up with a single rate and uniform definitions of goods and services that would apply to all jurisdictions within their states, and vendors would be able to easily remit taxes to the state where the purchase was received using newly developed software...
...survey of local businesses shows that the Square is a more expensive place to shop only if you shop at independent stores. Chains tend to keep their prices more or less uniform in the same area--in fact, in many instances chain prices are lower in the Square than elsewhere in metropolitan Boston...
...Texas Death Row Fugitive Guy was so empathetic because he was an underdog: darkening his uniform with a pen, scaling two 10-ft., razor-studded fences, ducking a barrage of bullets, scampering through a marshy forest and evading more than 500 officers. Martin Gurule was a maverick with nothing left to lose up against a giant bureaucracy and some pretty cocky-sounding Texas prison officers, who were fooled by pillows he bunched together to make it look like him sleeping. Gurule was fighting the Man. He was messing with Texas. Are you getting this, Mr. Bruckheimer...
Whatever the factual and moral parallels between the two cases, the two men's fates could be quite different. If so, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, a crucial distinction will account for the difference: "The general is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Commander in Chief is not." In our constitutional system, says Thompson, "we have a different way to deal with the President, as we probably should." TIME Washington columnist Margaret Carlson agrees. "There is only one President but thousands of soldiers," she says. One is not as easily dispensable as the other. "Moreover...