Word: rigidities
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...part, accepts Walton's sandals and jeans, and even excused his star from spending the night before the home game against Notre Dame with the rest of the team in a motel. "I've changed," says Wooden. "The times have changed. You can't be rigid and unyielding." Says Walton: "I don't have blind reverence for authority. People I respect earn my respect. Coach Wooden has earned...
...fearsome headaches. She laughed them off at first as migraines, and plowed herself with more pills, heavy doses of mild downers, and, as the pains grew persistent, barbituates. She was fighting them in bouts of up to two hours, once clutching a twisted face to her chest in a rigid fetal position on the floor. "She would have done anything, anything at all, to make the pain stop," Harley says. "The doctor couldn't tell what was wrong, and for all we knew the pills were making it worse." And the pains beat on like bolts in her brain until...
Whatever the truth is about the role of organized crime in narcotics trafficking, there does seem to be a split between Italians involved in gambling and the numbers and Italians who traffic in narcotics. In East Harlem, the Italian community I know best, there seems to be a rather rigid social division between gamblers and drug dealers. The gamblers, many of whom have been linked to the Genovese family, spend much of their time in a social club in the area and in local bars. They are quite friendly with local residents and with the political leadership...
After years of incremental progress in token minority admissions, colleges began full-scale programs to bring minority enrollment to the level in the overall population. Whether rigid or merely implicit, these programs took the shape of a quota system for minority admissions. This practice has provoked an outcry of "reverse discrimination" from whites who say blacks and other minorities don't have to work as hard to get into college...
...protect the health of mother and child and to enable administrators to plan for continuous instruction. Faced with similar suits by LaFleur, another Cleveland teacher and a teacher from Chesterfield County, Va., the court concluded that, while health and instructional continuity are valid goals, long leave requirements are unnecessarily rigid. They violate the due-process clause, said Justice Potter Stewart, because there is a constitutionally protected "freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life." Therefore long mandatory leaves "unduly penalize a female teacher for deciding to bear a child." Justice William Rehnquist, joined by Chief Justice Warren...