Word: rigidities
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...statement declaring that "a significant number of us disagree with Berry's decision." Added Andersen, who is considered a zealot and a martinet by a number of cadets as well as officers, and has been accused of conducting vendettas against those who do not measure up to his rigid standards: "While we have no authority or right to infringe on the human dignity [of individuals], we have the right to choose who we associate with and who to speak...
...choice. Every family has different needs and consequently different responses to us and the products we sell. If we fail to respond flexibly to different circumstances as we are trained to do, then it is our own fault. The memorized talk is to provide a foundation; the rigid schedule is to provide direction. It would take years to become bored with the presentation, even if it were given in exactly the same way at each house, simply because every family responds differently to it. And since students have every opportunity to be as creative as they would like...
...frank, we shall also have to look again next year at problems such as pay differentials, and industry tells me that middle managers are feeling they're not getting the rewards that they would get elsewhere. These problems built up during two years of rigid incomes policy. In the long run, I would like to think that unions and employers would themselves work out a policy for pay and incomes so that the government need not step in, that each would recognize what they can take out of the kitty. I think this common assent has been the great...
Radical feminists regard Sigmund Freud as the ultimate male chauvinist -and with some reason. The master taught that women are masochistic, secretive, insincere, dependent and jealous, have little sense of justice and become more rigid and unchangeable at an earlier age than...
...only by his shame about being a bastard, but also by the secret life his unwed parents led in order to evade public scorn and prejudice. What better reason for identifying with a people under the yoke of imperialist domination than his own haunting memories of his mother's rigid morality? (An illegitimate child herself, she pleaded with each of her three sons to redeem her by becoming missionaries...