Word: rigidities
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...admirals who oppose him are the same as the ones who wept when Mitchell's planes dropped dummy bombs on their battle wagons, the same as the ones who lined up the battle wagons at Pearl Harbor to scare the Japanese. They have always been guided by rigid stupidity. I don't believe the conflict is basically racial. It was the same in World War II with no blacks. If officers treat men justly and fairly, the men will respect them and carry out orders...
...When he arrived in Germany last year, however, Klapp found the contemporary Army was nowhere near as new as it cracked itself up to be. Said he: "The old ways were still enforced in Germany. There was the caste system, harassing treatment by superiors, unnecessary and unfair rigid inspections and a soldier's loss of his constitutional rights...
...beautiful buildings and churches and highways and bridges and schools. We love this country. We were afraid it was going down the drain and nobody was doing anything about it." Like other members of the craft unions, however, he is choosy about who gets to build. Because of the rigid apprenticeship programs, outsiders, especially those from minority groups, have a hard time getting in the unions. Opposed to federal intervention, Brennan helped formulate the New York plan, which was intended to train 800 black and Spanish-speaking people. After two years, only 545 have been accepted, and 22 have union...
Goals are not quotas. Quotas are rigid limits designed to keep members of a certain group out on irrelevant grounds such as their numbers in the population. Goals are flexible and designed to bring in qualified people previously excluded by a biased hiring procedure. Goals are set on the basis of the pool of qualified minority or women candidates. Goals are not the only tool of affirmative action, but they are one that Harvard has not sufficiently developed...
Most college students if they think of it at all, shudder at the thought of wearing uniforms, being forced to follow a rigid schedule, saluting officers, participating in mandatory parades and formation. But to the Gadets at West Point it is something very much more: a place where you get the discipline be a man and a leader...