Word: rigidities
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...Senator who has seized power rather than a mere lampooning critic of others who hold it, Dole has mellowed and matured. But he still goes his own way, shunning rigid ideology and seeking consensus for what he thinks will work. The tax bill showed Dole at his best, pulling Reagan and the White House toward a much needed package of selective tax increases, while fending off New York Republican Congressman Jack Kemp and other unbending advocates of supply-side economics. Dole also bucked the opposition of Republican stalwarts in the said and financial communities. "If you want...
Asian societies have adapted better to inflation, partly because their people have been less rigid in their expectations. Japanese workers, for example, who are fiercely loyal to their firms, are willing to accept pay cuts during hard times. Says Samuel Brittan, a leading British economist: "The one part of the world in which there is real wage flexibility is Southeast Asia...
Whatever the merits of the British case on the budget, there was little doubt that Thatcher and Pym had made a major diplomatic miscalculation. "Britain was rigid on all fronts," said a senior Community official. "It was rigid on sanctions. It was rigid on budgetary contributions, and it was rigid on farm prices. That simply is not the way the Community operates. In a compromise, everyone gives something and receives something...
...Charles Mathias decreed that local voting laws could be adjudged discriminatory on the basis of their "effects" rather than their "intent." Civil rights groups say intent is almost impossible to prove in court; the wording of the bill precludes a conservative fear that the effects test could lead to rigid racial quotas...
...within 90 seconds issues a printout that may, in its own words, "indicate" or "suggest" what is wrong with the patient. Dr. Robert Fallal, the hospital's chief of pulmonary medicine, claims that in 85% of the cases, PUFF makes recommendations a doctor can use. "It is still rigid, and it has a problem with mixed diagnoses," says Fallat, "but it gives you time to concentrate on the remaining, challenging...