Word: rigidities
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...inauguration, the President has surprised no one by turning many complex issues into "crucial" tests of strength between the superpowers. Reagan's three nation trip to Latin America, which begins tomorrow, promises to be a prime example of how policy becomes twisted when was the world is seen through rigid ideological blinders...
...Soviet leaders have proved to be much more ideologically rigid. Economics Professor Gertrude Schroeder of the University of Virginia estimates that the Soviets are now working on their 14th set of "reforms" since 1965. Says she: "These aren't reforms as much as endless changes in their planning procedures. The real trouble is rooted in the system. To correct their problems, they must decentralize the economy." Decentralizing the economy, though, would mean dispersing political power, and the Kremlin is hardly eager for that. In addition, the vast Soviet bureaucracy has a vested interest in resisting economic reforms...
...There was a definite notion that we did not want to appear rigid and unflexible," said Sesha Pratap '84, chairman of the council's communications and finance committee. The finance panel will make non-binding funding recommendations to the full council...
...door of 21 South Street lie walls of framed memorabilia--special issue covers, photographs, announcements of a poetry reading by John Ashbery, a yellowing newspaper article about five editors forced to resign in 1937 after publishing two "crudely maudlin" articles. ("It is about time that college authorities maintained rigid supervision over the childish literary efforts of these embryonic authors who seem to think it a mark of distinction to dish up dirt for the edification of other immature minds," sputtered the prosecuting lawyer). In a place of honor near the door hangs a specially engraved poem by Richard Eberhart. Half...
...bound to happen. And so it does, early next month when the pair (mean height: 5 ft. 7 in.) team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...