Word: rigidities
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Chiseling is a part of the Asian ambiance, from the ramshackle capital of lazy little Laos to the broad boulevards of booming Bangkok and the expense-account nightclubs of prosperous Japan. Even rigid Communist disciplinarians have failed to suppress the fast-buck artist: from Red China come tales of profiteering in the communes; refugees report that shady officials do a brisk business in exit permits; and the government is constantly renewing its "Four Cleans" anticorruption campaign. As for North Viet Nam, Hanoi recently headlined a Politburo official's complaint that party members were indulging in "dubious financial situations...
...Harvard has always followed more rigid standards than the new law calls for in obtaining and treating animals for experimentation," he said...
Developed by Caldwell C. Johnson, assistant chief of the Advanced Spacecraft Technology Division at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the lifeboat is a rigid 400-lb. fiber glass shell lined with polyurethane foam and shaped like an old French bathtub-narrower at one end than at the other. It is 6 ft. long, 4| ft. wide, 21 ft. deep. Sheathed in a Johnson-designed nylon heat shield for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, the craft is equipped with a swivel-mounted retrorocket, attitude-control jets, a transponder for ground control, a built-in oxygen supply...
...Utah's non-Mormons, the News is still unrealistically rigid. "If those fellows would just sit back, have a drink and light up a big black cigar," says a top state Democrat, "maybe they'd be closer to human." To the editors of the News, that sort of statement just proves their point about the low state of morals in America...
From such simple beginnings, the prototype American drugstore grew. Today, the Walgreen empire has 523 wholly owned outlets, plus a franchise network of 1,900 independents licensed to use the Walgreen name and sell its products. Store managers get rigid directions on everything from sexy magazines and paperbacks they cannot sell to what products they should push. The Golden Rule for all Walgreen store managers is: go below, never above, the recommended price...