Word: rigidities
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...breakdowns of the transportation system produced growing food shortages as farmers were unable to ship their products to the country's great urban centers. The stock market plummeted. Industrial growth came to a standstill. The Government, attempting to stave off a collapse of the national economy, imposed rigid guidelines for prices, wages and profits. Critics of these policies were severely penalized under new antisedition laws that virtually nullified the First Amendment. The U.S., in effect, became a totalitarian state...
...Rigid intelligence agency policy, overworked agents and internecene quarreling between agencies all contributed to "a staggering attrition rate among Bureau informants," Gill said...
...illustrate that Max's coarseness and brutality are only a defense, he has him dress in layers of clothing, ragged protective armor that Max sheds in a perilously symbolic striptease. It will not do for White to have Lion just freak out; he must grow blank and rigid right on the stone paws of a lion that decorates a Detroit fountain. Director Schatzberg (The Panic in Needle Park, Puzzle of a Downfall Child) bats out these sorry epiphanies and maudlin metaphors with the eager aplomb of a rookie swatting fungoes...
...will stall endlessly on the job of cleansing exhausts. Automakers insist that the standards are still technically unfeasible. Last week Environmental Protection Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus, who must enforce the Clean Air Act, decreed a compromise. He gave the auto industry an extra year to meet the full, rigid requirements of the law, but set interim standards so tough that Detroit's reaction was immediate and angry anyway...
...Corporation's next chance to endorse the ACSR's skepticism comes next week, when it votes its Phillips Petroleum shares for or against an ACSR-endorsed resolution to force the company's withdrawal from Namibia, the southwest African territory that South Africa rules illegally and with the same rigid apartheid the government imposes at home. Until the Corporation follows the ACSR's lead on this and other matters, we will remain skeptical; but the Caterpilllar Tractor vote is at least a step in the right direction...