Word: rigidities
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...major failing: his reluctance to compromise. His rigidity caused him repeated trouble with the Georgia legislature. In 1974, while pressuring the legislators to pass a consumer protection bill, he scornfully described them as the worst in the state's history. Outraged, they stopped work for several days and bitterly complained until Carter retreated from his harsh words. But he stopped short of an apology. Indeed, Carter's refusal to yield on some points nearly caused the defeat of his major accomplishment as Governor?streamlining the state government by reducing the number of agencies from about 300 to 22. Recalls...
This depends on the person or party you have in mind. There are many types of Communism coexisting in the world nowadays. I wouldn't be rigid in my evaluation. It is true that in those countries where Communist parties have behaved in a democratic way, they have been rather small minority parties...
...residency documents for Moscow, widely considered the most desirable place in the Soviet Union to live. (The capital gets top priority on all consumer goods, for one thing.) They contrive incredibly complicated apartment swaps in a country where housing is still disastrously scarce. When they have babies, they circumvent rigid hospital rules: new mothers dangle strings out of their windows, and their husbands tie parcels of food to them. Hustling na levo (on the left) is a way of life. It encompasses using government limousines as gypsy cabs and a thousand other winked-at subterfuges...
...petition states that the students who sign it "deplore the trend in education at Harvard toward denigrating the quality of education in favor of keeping up 'standards' in a purely formal, rigid sense, which leads to increased competition and overemphasis on grades...
...basic structural feature is a diffuse hierarchy of power. The Berawan often talk as if they have a rigid class system with endogamous social strata, as some of their neighbors do indeed have. But the terminology of class is only borrowed and hitched onto a system of rank, which depends primarily on standing within the community and hence allows considerable mobility. In Borneo, a geneology studded with famous men of past generations and free of slaves, known reprobates and the illegitimate, makes for an aristocracy. But if the individual fails to play a part in community affairs or drinks...