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...Mounts Everest and Annapurna, is flanked entirely by the Himalayas--provides for poor communications, medical services and transportation of the agricultural goods produced by 90 per cent of the workforce. Shah denies that the mere infusion of aid and technology will remold Nepal's political and economic institutions to conform to their Western equivalents. "It's very difficult to push through liberal democracy in a world that is really illiberal," he says. "You cannot change the world with a magic wand...
...many Crimson coaches, the conflict between the desire to win and the need to conform to Harvard admissions standards is often uneasy. Although coaches respect the academic goals of the office of admissions, many express frustration that arises not from stringent standards, but from other constraints. Joe Restic, Crimson football coach, says the biggest problem he faces is the relative unattractivenesss of Harvard's financial aid package...
...your description of Governor Jerry Brown in Des Moines looking like a Princeton undergraduate [Jan. 21]: send me a check to cover the cost of the three-piece suit and the muffler, and I will gladly conform to your archetype of a Princeton undergraduate...
...licensing board last week ruled that the city cannot control Goldberg's gasoline allocation. "Now they'll have no choice but to regulate, and Goldberg, if he wants to keep his license, will have to conform," City Councilor David Sullivan said after Monday's vote...
...President Carter doesn't have enough trouble already, he may soon be accused of orchestrating events to conform to the plot of Forsyth's book. The action that sets off the universe-threatening troubles in Alternative is an American embargo on grain sales similar to the one Carter ordered last Friday. If we're in for a two weeks anything like that which President William Matthew's nation edures, better look into buying real estate in a remote area--like Venus...