Word: rigidities
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...titanic power struggle. In spite of disagreements about who is doing what to whom, however, most specialists in the West agreed that something certainly seemed to be brewing in the Kremlin. They also agreed that a Kremlin shake-up would not mean a drastic change in the present rigid and repressive Soviet policies at home and in Eastern Europe, but simply a more vigorous application of those policies. In other words, even if there are major changes in the cast, the new players are likely to follow roughly the same script...
Alternatives to rigid concentration requirements, May said, could be a concentration in general education or general studies, or the maintenance of requirements for honors candidates only...
...nausea that Americans of all ages felt. The Sixties, by all accounts, was monstrously, unique. The American Dream was polluted as steadily and inexorably as the nation's air, water, and earth, until the young hands that had once reached out eagerly to grab their legacy recoiled into rigid fists...
Although it exports its products with ever-increasing enthusiasm, Japan has maintained a closed-door policy toward imports and foreign investments. It has been under heavy pressure from its trading partners in recent years to ease its rigid protectionism. Still, the Japanese are cautious; if they must open their economy to big foreign investment, they want no corporate giants from abroad to take over too much...
...maintain a high standard of skill. It takes only 16 months to train an Air Force jet pilot but five years to train a plumber. George Meany's rationale for that: the plumber must learn a greater variety of skills (Meany is a plumber). If blacks pass the rigid written tests needed to enter the apprenticeship program, they often fail the commonly rigged oral exams. One egregious case is that of Anderson L. Dobbins, a black who tried for four years to get into a Cincinnati electricians' local. Finally, he was admitted-but only after a federal judge...