Word: conformism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...department of the University. Every faculty, museum, and department must pass its budget through the Corporation. But again, the Corporation does not examine the budgets solely to make sure all the numbers add up. Every dean and vice president develops a five-year plan, and the budgets must all conform to that plan. "If the faculty comes to us and says it wants two new professors, the first thing we say is 'all right, where's the dough?'" says Francis H. Burr '35, who served on the Corporation for 28 years until...
...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...