Word: rigidities
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...that his clients deserved promotion before any new exam was ordered. Said he: "My people are victims of Judge Marshall's command that the city correct its previous discrimination by imposing quotas. They are Bakke. They are victims of reverse discrimination brought about by court order and a rigid quota." The comparison seemed somewhat stretched, but Judge Marshall nevertheless delayed his order abolishing the 1973 list of candidates for promotion and allowed Barry time to submit new arguments based on the Allan Bakke case...
Split almost exactly down the middle, the Supreme Court last week offered a Solomonic compromise. It said that rigid quotas based solely on race were forbidden, but it also said that race might legitimately be an element in judging students for admission to universities. It thus approved the principle of "affirmative action," the system by which the Government is pressuring U.S. universities, corporations and other institutions to provide more jobs and better pay for millions of blacks, other minorities and women. Despite a flurry of protest demonstrations by militants, most observers praised the court for a cautious but astute effort...
...lessons to be learned on all sides. First, the ranchers, who overreacted to a rather modest increase in quotas, should recognize that freer trade will ultimately benefit them. America's potential for export to a beef-loving world is enormous, and ranchers cannot exploit it while clamoring for rigid quotas...
...failed to comprehend that often democracy is at best a shifting state between the tyranny it overthrew and the tyranny it might become. Even though freedom, tolerance and other qualities might be termed democracy's adjusted faults, these are by far to be preferred to the rigid correctitude of totalitarianism. Like a writer's work, freedom exists only when it is constantly interpreted - even misinterpreted...
Gibson doesn't recollect coming to Harvard with rigid preconceptions of what students here would be like, and after meeting a great many of them she doesn't feel that there is an archetypal Harvard student...