Word: rigidities
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When asked whether the new economic policy was a "concession of failure on the way we've been doing business." Houthakker replied, "Our economy and whole society has become rigid and is not as adaptable as in the past. I think we will have to come to some realignment of it." He added that the "problem is that we have no effective consumer group," putting pressure on the government...
...consists of a wide variety of chemical compounds. One of the newest entries -used for many of the bright, nearly indestructible, solid-color pieces-is ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), from which football helmets are also made. Polyurethane, which can be used in varying consistencies as either soft filler or rigid outer shell, is increasingly used for chairs and couches. Other widely used materials are clear acrylics, like Plexiglas and Lucite...
...Frozen Popcorn. By concentrating on the big, highly visible wage and price decisions, the board might get by with only a relatively small staff of lawyers, investigators and economists; some estimates go as low as 500 employees. Since it would not be applying rigid controls on all wages and prices, the board could escape some of the niggling questions on which policers of the freeze have been forced to rule. One such ruling classified unpopped popcorn as an agricultural product exempt from the freeze-but held popped corn to be a processed food, and thus frozen...
...workers in an electronics plant outside Belgrade, Brezhnev lauded the right of each country to build its own form of Communism. Then he turned around and implied that the Soviets reject the Yugoslav system of self-management, which grants considerable local initiative and democracy in contrast to the rigid, centrally controlled Soviet setup...
...years Sir Rudolf Bing has ruled New York's Metropolitan Opera with an iron fist, influencing people but making few friends by imposing rigid discipline on his staff and summarily firing such stars as Baritone Robert Merrill and Maria Callas. Austrian by birth, British and American by achievement, Bing was given the highest accolade of his career last June when the British government made him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. But in New York, familiarity had bred discontent. All the more surprising when Sir Rudolf-who will retire at the end of this season-walked...