Word: rigidities
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...Soviets will have to shift the planning emphasis from more factories and more workers to more efficient factories and more productivity per worker. Decentralizing the economy so that managers need not clear so many decisions with the sluggish Moscow bureaucracy will also be necessary. For the leaders of the rigid Soviet system, that kind of drastic reform will not be easy...
...five predominantly black campuses, where 70% of the state university's 20,500 black students are enrolled. To pay for the improvements, the Governor agreed to pass up a planned $40 million tax cut. But the effort failed. The university concluded that HEW'S demands were "rigid" and last week sued to prevent the department from cutting off at least $20 million in federal...
...didn't have a syllabus until very late this year, but I think it is a very good idea to request them." William Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry and head of Chemistry 4, said Tuesday. But he added he would be very cautious in declaring too rigid a grading policy in the course...
...Harrison (Tom Conti) is paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash. Possessing a terrible lucidity about his sorry state, Harrison wants to die. Self-righteously governed by a rigid ethical imperative, the doctor in charge, Dr. Emerson (Philip Bosco), means to prolong Harrison's existence...
...faculty and graduate students, politically and intellectually very exciting." With the advent of the mid-'60s, however, that serenity disappeared. "That world hadn't changed." Walzer recalls. "What had changed was the war and general politicization of life that flooded into the University and ran up against a fairly rigid and not terribly sensitive administrative structure...