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...host of often conflicting interests is involved. For the property's owner and developer, the case has meant three years worth of frustrating attempts to conform to city regulations in the hope of putting up a $2 million condominium complex. Nearby residents have complained of yet another construction project in the lucrative North Cambridge market and decried the near-total demolition of a local landmark. The city building inspector has condemned the facade as unsafe because it does not meet the wind pressure tolerance mandated by the building code. And at least three city councilors are concerned that the developer...
...sweeping success of Mulroney appears on the surface to conform to a pattern already evident in Britain and the United States, First Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, then President Reagan, and now Brian Mulroney have won stunning victories for conservatism...
...securities analyst for Shearson/ American Express: "The Autoworkers' agreement is a watershed in the sense that we are moving from the British model of confrontation to the Japanese model of cooperation between labor and management." But it still remains to be seen if the rank and file will conform to that new model...
...would surely be unreasonable to require all invited speakers to submit to questioning and debate; commencement speakers and guest preachers illustrate the point. Hence, the University would have to engage in a difficult process of drawing lines to determine when a student organization or other campus group had to conform to the requirement...
...complete oral tradition being recorded. Scholars are gaining interest in the field because of its usefulness in finding the origins of other works which have their roots in the oral tradition. "The field is reaching full maturity only now," he says, adding, "parts of the Bible also conform to the oral pattern...