Word: rigidities
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Nonetheless, Felker's weekly Almanac de Gotham lays down standards of aspiration, acceptance and rejection as rigid as any set by Louis Quatorze. Along with genuinely useful "urban survival" features, it gives the insecure a superior feeling of being inside, offering them a blend of fact and fantasy. It portrays an unreal stream-of-consumption world whose Gucci'd, Pucci'd denizens glide between Parke-Bernet (the t is not silent) and La Grenouille (the maitre d's name is Jean), send their children to the Dalton School, winter in St. Maarten or Gstaad, summer...
...pretty rigid," Carter admits. "It's been very difficult for me to compromise when I believe in something deeply. I generally prefer to take it to the public, to fight it out to the last vote, and if I go down, I go down in flames...
...economy where government stifles competition and holds up prices. Transportation is a key example. Actions that reduce the competition from imports should be avoided. Most important, we need an income policy. It cannot be across-the-board wage and price controls−they are ultimately far too rigid for a dynamic economy...
With such mundane weapons as air conditioners is the cold war for press freedom being fought in India. Nearly a year and a half after Gandhi suspended civil liberties and imposed rigid press controls, most of the nation's 1,300 domestic dailies seem to have given up the battle. Their pages are now filled with fawning accounts of national events, flattering pictures of Gandhi and her ambitious son Sanjay-and, not coincidentally, lucrative government advertising. But two tough, prominent publishers of English-language dailies-Ramnath Goenka of the 44-year-old Express and C.R. Irani...
...paper is primarily an organ of commentary. Often Ergo's interpretation of the correct libertarian line is so rigid that to other libertarians break with the paper. Lawrence White '77, president of Sons of Liberty, Harvard's libertarian group, calls the paper "too right wing." He explains that Ergo founds its philosophy on the thought of novelist Ayn Rand. As a youth, Rand saw the Bolsheviks take over Russia. Before she emigrated to the United States, the Bolsheviks killed both her parents, leaving her with a virulent anti-Communist streak...