Word: rigidities
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...concept by grasping a bundle of nine upright cigarettes. Each represents, in effect, a separate, square building, 75 ft. by 75 ft.; joined together, the nine square "tubes" form the basic structure of the Sears Tower. By combining all nine tubes -each of which is inherently a strong, rigid shape-the building needs less structural steel than a conventional tower. The saving: about $10 million in steel costs...
Seoul offers 1,500 registered kisaeng, most of them young and pretty. The girls are licensed, as an official directive specifies, to "entertain her guest in his hotel room." Among licensing requirements: a rigid twice-a-month phys ical checkup. (Kisaeng pick up their cards, oddly enough, in Seoul's Y.M.C.A.) Once approved the girls trip off to work in one of Seoul's twelve "licensed restaurants," don their time-honored chogori (loose blouses) and chima (flowing skirts) and get to work...
...attached to a long pole consisting of seven 4-ft. sections. An astronaut could extend the pole and sheet out of a small airlock in the middle of the Orbital Workshop's exposed area. Springs in the umbrella's "spokes" would automatically snap the covering into a rigid rectangle that could be positioned close to the skin of the shieldless spacecraft. Major drawback of the parasol: the airlock mechanism would prevent the astronauts from seeing how the operation was proceeding outside the spacecraft...
...conclusion Herrnstein draws from these premises is that social standing is based largely upon differences among people which are inherited and therefore beyond the influence of social action. Furthermore, this genetic caste system will only become more rigid as stratification becomes more "meritocratic" and less arbitrary...
...special energy message to Congress last month, President Nixon tried to steer a middle course while easing the shortages. He acted to increase supplies of foreign oil by abolishing the rigid import quota system and replacing it with a flexible system of tariffs on imported oil. To spur domestic output, Nixon ordered the Interior Department to triple by 1979 the amount of federal acreage leased to oil and gas companies. Moreover, the President asked Congress to drop price controls on new finds of natural gas, to extend investment tax credits on both dry and producing wells and to streamline time...