Word: rigidities
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...percent of China's trade was with industrialized non-Communist countries. Japan has, I believe, replaced Russia as her leading trade partner. Not one of China's leading trade partners can be classed a strong ally, and ten of these are allies or close to the United States. The rigid "lean-to-one-side" posture of 1949 seems to have crumpled...
...make the system more flexible by allowing a single opportunity for dissatisfied students to switch Houses, perhaps at the end of their sophomore year. If the Houses are indeed capable of satisfying most of their residents, then there will be very few transfers. Rather than the old system's rigid choices based on hearsay, the new system would then provide a flexible safety valve based on experience...
...denigrate those who have made it in the 'square' world. They see Nirvana in LSD, with its perceptual wonders, the intensity, luminosity and throbbing of colors. True, this can be blissful, but there is danger of ego loss or psychosis when someone with paranoid tendencies or a rigid personality glimpses his personal problem. It can be truly hellish...
...easier for Asian executives and technicians who come to Australia on assignments for their companies to bring their wives and families with them. Commented Sydney's Morning Herald: "The minor changes that Holt has mentioned will go some way to undo the immense harm caused by the present rigid white-Australia policy...
...much as a single course in Flemish until 1932, is ten miles inside Flemish "territory." And with all the fervor of those who feel they have been snubbed for centuries, the Flemish have succeeded during the past few years in cutting the school into linguistic divisions just as rigid as the nation's-even to separate budgets for the next academic year...