Word: rigidities
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...rules, the only minority report adopted by the convention was an innocuous platform amendment promising to loosen Hatch Act restrictions against political activities by Government employees; a similar proposal was passed by the Democratic Congress but vetoed by President Ford. The lack of controversy was less a result of rigid control by the Carter forces than of patient conciliatory efforts by Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss over the past three years and of Carter's own persuasiveness last week. In earnest appearances before restive groups of women, blacks and Latinos, Carter promised each that they would be visibly represented...
...evidence available in most prosecutions for firearms crime simply cannot measure up to the rigid evidentiary requirements of the firearm licensing laws," Beha said. "The result is that Bartley-Fox charges can be successfully included in only a fraction of the prosecutions for crimes committed with a gun," he added...
...dealt with only a handful of murder cases in five states. It approved the death penalty in just three of those states: Florida, Georgia and Texas. In two others, North Carolina and Louisiana, the Justices by a five-to-four vote struck down capital-punishment laws as being too rigid in requiring death for certain crimes-the very thing that the court seemed to be asking...
...chemist at the Unilever Corp. in Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, Pethica has been crossing the Atlantic at least once a year since 1958, and he likes what he calls "the entrepreneurial attitude." But he wants to teach. Says he: "The university system in Britain seems somehow less open, more rigid, more hierarchical. In the U.S. there is a broad diversity of systems, which allows you to educate everyone as far as he can go. That opportunity to broaden the possibilities of life is more specifically an American value...
...nine, he began studying Greek, Latin and French, and at 14 he luckily fell under the tutelage of an excellent classicist, the Reverend James Maury. Even at that early age, this somewhat aloof intellectual was what he himself calls "a hard student," and his long hours and rigid selfdiscipline are legendary among his friends. Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen he credits with making him impervious to colds and agues. He does occasionally suffer, however, from severe headaches...