We also try to preserve a positive self-image and we go to great lengths to get others to perceive us positively as well.

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Recently, The Creative Group, a recruiting firm, published a report on the unusual lengths people will go to get hired.

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David Barstow of The New York Times, working with Mexican reporter Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab, traveled across Mexico to look at Wal-Mart's activities and the lengths to which the company's executives would go to get their goals accomplished.

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