Word: conform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with traditional political activity. At Columbia University, M.I.T. and at Brandeis University, student groups have agreed to administration requests that they evacuate on-campus offices. Columbia, though publicly citing a need for the office space, told the regional staff of the M.N.C. that the university wanted to conform to federal guidelines that raise doubt about tax exemptions because of political activity by groups like M.N.C. At Brandeis, it was local tax officials who raised a similar problem. However, the Internal Revenue Service has given its blessings to a plan, originated at Princeton, under which students will...
...then used this to put pressure on individuals and groups of individuals and institutions- the scapegoats he had identified for society- to make their practices conform to his followers' view of how they should behave. The successes he achieved in this way would in turn serve to maintain and strengthen his political ascendancy. It was not a particularly attractive period in our history...
Most people I know are fighting these fights so frantically because, unhappy in their roles, they are sure that they have failed. But it is the roles, not they, who have failed. It is sexist society which has failed to conform to us as human beings...
CLAO could, for example, solve the problem of dull routine by refusing to take divorce cases and then diverting its resources to more interesting social concerns. But it seems obvious that the community wants lawyers to handle divorces, and this is thebest way for CLAO to conform to its clients' priorities...
Even more acutely, a number of experts suggest that many black children fail in school because that is precisely what their teachers expect of them. When teachers view students as uneducable, they say, the children eventually conform to that negative expectation. Those taught to feel worthless soon act worthless...