Word: rigidities
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...obsession for absolute power, Osagyefo banned all opposition parties, passed a series of laws empowering him to jail all suspected enemies indefinitely and without trial, declared Ghana a one-party state with himself as perpetual President. He also outlawed strikes and clamped rigid government control over the press...
Villard nobly does battle with the paper windmills of State Department bureaacracy. He talks of the rigid hierarchy of command, of the mounds of messages and memos which float around Foggy Bottom in ever-increasing amounts, and of the extremely compartmentalized nature of modern decision-making. With nostalgia he recalls the days before 1947, when policy was formed at the top in an atmosphere of pipes and good cigars, and when "Discussions were unruffled, wide-ranging, and unhampered by squads of technicians and specialists...
...Rigid curriculum, formal teaching methods, an overlong lecture schedule -little about their studies seemed to please the 25 students who presented their complaints to Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of Harvard's prestigious medical school...
Conflicts are bound to break out occasionally during hockey games. Secondary schools protect the sport by an automatic one-game suspension for any participant in a fight; colleges believe the sport is sufficiently clean to make such a rigid rule unnecessary. It is the occasional disciplinary action, such as Weiland's voluntary decision, which allows the colleges to follow this policy...
...himself, Johnson tries to express a recognizable, timeless image of the human figure in the wet, free speech of oil paint. To keep it from becoming rigid and lifeless, he keeps himself off balance too, has even painted over his shoulder without looking at the canvas...