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...There is a sense of agreement [among masters] that senior bars in public places are okay as long as they conform to the guidelines in the house," says Pfister...
Nonetheless, the State Department reportedly has been cooking up a compromise in which the U.S. would export specialty beef products, including tongue and liver, that conform to E.C. standards. Secretary of State James Baker may offer such terms this week when he makes a diplomatic tour of European capitals...
...When I'm called a conservative, I now wear that as a badge of honor, because in my world it really just means you are a heretic, you've said something unorthodox. You are supposed to conform to certain intellectual fashions, and if you don't, they say, "That's heterodoxy...
...heating policy was designed to minimize costs and conform to the Cambridge health code, said Michael N. Lichten, director of the Office of Project Management...
...trust him, Bush wooed them assiduously. Sometimes his obsequiousness was comical: until confronted with taped evidence, Bush denied having said Reagan's supply-side nostrums represented "voodoo economics." Sometimes it was dispiriting: Bush changed his positions on issues like abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment in order to conform to Reagan's views. His most blatantly fawning behavior, like saluting Jerry Falwell ("America is in crying need of the moral vision you have brought to our political life") and praising William Loeb, the New Hampshire publisher who had belittled him, caused critics to wonder about Bush's "corruption of ambition...