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Older students and minorities said that they must consider whether they are willing to conform to traditional job conditions before deciding where to take their first legal position...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Prestigious Firms Court Students | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

...must be frustrating for Reagan to watch American technology, albeit produced abroad, facilitate a project to which he is vehemently opposed; besides, he is technically within his rights in ordering the sanctions. Nevertheless, he is inexcusably naive to believe that complex international economic ties could be made to conform with a bipolar political policy...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: No Sanction for Reagan's Machismo | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...trying to strip or rip off my shield, that it was willing to do so ruthlessly, that it didn't care about me personally, or the amount of humiliation or degradation it might inflict in the process. I stubbornly balked at being manipulated, regulated, or being compelled to conform blindly through fear or threat or punishment, however severe. Indeed, I came to question the validity of a society that appeared more concerned with imposing its will than in inspiring respect. There seemed to me something grossly wrong with this. 'We'll make you be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California State Prison | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...major mover behind ergonomics. The firm has developed a line of furniture with pneumatic mechanisms that adjust backs and seats, a five-pronged chair base that prevents tipping, and molded backs that conform to the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ergo What? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...West Beirut. In addition, Nigel Hawkes, foreign news editor of London's The Observer, acknowledges that there may be "a sort of double standard-we may not have the highest expectations of Iran or Iraq, but Israel is perceived as being a Western nation and is expected to conform to Western standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Win a Battle and Lose a Political War | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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