Word: rigidities
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Since she is now the country's leading gymnast, the Soviet press has naturally begun to refer to Nelli Kim as "Charming Nelli." When she pauses to chomp watermelon in the midst of an otherwise rigid training regimen, she fits that title, but Nelli and her coaches agree that she can often be much less than charming. The only thing that justifies her moods are the results. In Montreal four years ago, Kim not only won two individual gold medals but scored two all-but-unprecedented perfect tens -one in the floor exercise program and one in her specialty...
...appears enthusiastic about the idea of reform, but members disagree on just what they should be, Jane I. Smith, chairman of the steering committee and associate dean for academic affairs, says, adding, 'A few faculty members don't want any requirements, some want flexible ones, other want them quite rigid...
...Disraeli is out of office; the next second he is in-and then out again. Disraeli is dizzying indeed. The confusion has been added to by the show's American editors, who have cut approximately half an hour from the four episodes to fit PBS's absurdly rigid time slot. Love for Lydia, which was also on Masterpiece Theater, took twelve episodes -and threatened to stretch on through infinity. Disraeli takes only four. The viewer feels cheated and wants more, much more. - Gerald Clarke
...supervisors, administrators and the people who fetch their tea and coffee seriously. Though she often describes routine, her novels can be very refreshing: she is someone who writes about offices without ridicule, irony or condescension. She knows the regimen of a hospital as well as Jane Austen knew the rigid cycle of the Assembly Rooms at Bath...
...organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir that would have submerged the ancestral burial grounds of several Indian tribes. On balance, even liberal groups like Americans for Democratic Action were...