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...doubts that Blair is clever. Like centrist politicians everywhere, he's adept at embracing prevailing sentiments. By definition, though, the pursuit of centrism often involves following rather than leading. The question then is whether such centrists actually believe what they say and whether their actions in office will conform to their rhetoric. One always wonders whether they're tough enough to arbitrate among competing concerns and constituencies. Often the test comes when the only clean way out of a tangle demands saying no to those who will be offended by a particular decision. Whether Blair passes this test remains...
...later, in 1976, in his first try for elective office, beat an incumbent Senator, Hatch is accustomed to hearing complaints about himself from his more partisan colleagues. He has a 92% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, but nonetheless warns, "Anybody who tells me I've got to conform to their ideological point of view is going to be disappointed." Just last month Hatch, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, pushed through one of President Clinton's nominees to the federal bench despite objections from doctrinaire conservatives. Even though the nominee was confirmed 76-23, Lott publicly snubbed Hatch...
Part of Ginsberg's charm for contemporary poets may be his revolutionary bent and refusal to conform to accepted standards of poetic form...
...industry says this routine non-compliance--plant hardware and procedures that don't conform to NRC-approved licensing documents--hasn't cut safety margins. For years the documents were regarded as historical material, not as living guidebooks, says Joe Colvin, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry lobbyist. "It was a fuzzy area," he says, that neither the regulator nor the licensees paid much attention to. The post-Millstone emphasis on "rigid" compliance, another N.E.I. official has complained, "is almost as bad as NRC's reaction to Three Mile Island." Inside the agency, a rift developed between Jackson...
However, in December 1995 Shawmut filed a lawsuit against Maurer and Sforza claiming that welds on the piping for the hydronic heating system did not conform to the requirements of the contract...