Word: conformance
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...sermon delivered at Yom Kippur eve services on September 14 Rabbi Gold objected strongly to the timing conflict. Before a Memorial Church audience that included Rosovsky, Rabbi Gold argued that the conflict separates Jewish freshmen from their classmates on an "emotion-laden" day and that it pressures Jews to conform to a non-Jewish norm and to ignore their religion...
...does not take a long time for the new student to realize that while the University does not discriminate against Jews as individuals, Judaism is not part of University life, but is tolerated outside of it. "Business as usual" at Harvard on Yom Kippur therefore constitutes a pressure--to conform. I'm certain that some freshmen will, for the first time in their lives, ignore Yom Kippur, join their non-Jewish classmates at registration, and resent being put to the test. I know this for a fact because freshmen of previous years have told me so. And so I wonder...
Hustled Out. Indian journalists faced jail if they did not conform to the guidelines, but foreign correspondents, facing only expulsion, resisted. Three Western reporters, Peter Hazelhurst, 39, Tokyo-based Asian correspondent for the London Times; Peter Gill, 31, the London Daily Telegraph's man in Tehran; and Loren Jenkins, 36, Newsweek's Hong Kong bureau chief, refused to pledge submission and were hustled out of New Delhi at dawn Tuesday on a Beirut-bound Pan Am flight. The New York Times, TIME, the British Broadcasting Corp. and CBS-TV also turned down the pledge. Said Richard Salant, president...
...they remember this concert. Since than the two main one, Randy and Gary (State is a minor member, have reached maturity. They could play and sing like blazes back then, but now they have a strong influence on their father, who faithfully rocks along of does his best to conform to whatever newfangled stuff the boys are into. He were sheepish long hair and display's peace symbol--probably a legacy them hit friend Seager rather than his own political fervor--on his gaiter strop. But the adds still when an old number comes up--he's still the Gibraltar...
...prices more or less independently of demand, produce what they rather than consumers want, and in effect ram the products down consumers' throats by the power of advertising. If corporations cannot defy the market, they can sometimes resist it for a long time when it refuses to conform to their plans. A classic example is Detroit's stubborn insistence on building big, costly, gas-thirsty cars long after consumers had signaled a change in tastes by buying swarms of Volkswagens and Toyotas...