Word: conformism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear facilities, whether U.S.-supplied or not, as a condition on buying more atomic material from America. The same act vetoed the transfer of U.S. exports to a third country without prior U.S. approval, and tried to force client countries to rewrite their previous nuclear agreements with Washington to conform to the new and tougher standards. But the Carter plan had only limited success. By the end of his term Carter was reinterpreting it himself by selling 38 tons of embargoed uranium to India despite the fact that New Delhi, which had exploded a nuclear device in 1974, refused...
...Rightists call her "drastic amending" of a bill that would have banned adult bookstores within a one-mile radius of schools and parks. O'Connor altered the restriction to 4,000 feet, but she clearly had no desire to corrupt youth. One possible motive: getting state law to conform with federal statutes, thus reducing the possibility of court challenges...
...cause of all that passion-and of lesser outbursts in other state legislatures -is a subject guaranteed to put most ordinary citizens to sleep: reapportionment. In state capitols across the country, legislators are wrangling to draw new boundaries for U.S. congressional districts to conform with the 1980 census. (After that, they will reapportion their own state legislatures.) The decennial battle, always a partisan struggle, is especially heated this year: a total of 17 seats must be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven states in the West and the South. Those losing seats are New York...
Over the next three years. Harvard prepared three more affirmative action plans, each of which was subsequently rejected because it failed to conform to federal hiring plan guidelines. In 1974, the University finally negotiated a plan which proved acceptable to the federal government and began to strive for affirmative action targets. Its success has been limited at best...
...questions began to come to light last summer, Bok consulted with several Faculty members individually and organized an ad hoc committee to mull over the issue. "This was very much in the context of thinking. 'Let's see how we can work this out in a manner that will conform with academic values and benefit the University,'" Bok says now, recalling that professors who got wind of the proposal and came to him in opposition to it "weren't mad--they were just concerned." By the time the school year began, it had become evident that academic issues were pressing...