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...innocence, I took most of these stories heavily to heart as the Harvard way of doing things. And I figured I should conform. But then I really didn't want to, and here I was stuck with a gay boyfriend who tucked me into bed at night with just a peck upon the cheek. This on top of all the orgy stories, and the phonecalls, and the confrontations with perversion, and the rumors, and the sex-starved suicidal best friend...
Other young artists are unwilling to conform to the imperious (although recently somewhat modified) Disney dress and hair codes, or to go through the Mickey Mouse employee indoctrination at the "universities" at Disneyland and Disney World. At these "universities," most of the company's 20,000 clean, neat and good-looking employees are schooled in Traditions I, II, III and IV in the Way of Walt. (In the late 1950s, one of those employees was future Presidential Press...
Those arguments impressed the judge, who agreed that the curtailment or alteration of railroad routes-like the changing of the path of a river-should conform to the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act. The decision could affect the current trend of wholesale abandonments of rail service; U.S. railroads have already submitted plans to stop service on more than 250 stretches of track in 40 states, with 100 more cutbacks contemplated...
Much of the problem stems from the overwhelming pressure to conform...
...University's nepotism policy, which the HEW reviewer described as "obscure" and apparently operating "in a discriminatory fashion against women." will be rewritten to conform with the policy of the American Association of University Professors...