Word: rigidities
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...pick of Rat's litter is Corporal King, a cunning G.I. thimblerigger whose genius for survival turns Changi into a thieves' market. Get yours, reasons the King, and despite rigid camp rules against trading, he gets his: watches, rings, or the shirt off another prisoner's back-anything he can buy low and sell high through corrupt Japanese guards who have connections in Singapore's black market. While senior officers mope around in rags, King wears spruce khaki laundered by hired flunkies. Those who serve him may hate him, but they seldom die of malnutrition...
...Dunlop's policy for their own departments. Arthur A. Maass, chairman of the Government Department, said that the chief virtue of such a system is its ability to attract new men. As for his own department, Maass feels that a half-time teaching program should not be made a rigid policy at this time...
...Board were to decide that students must always appear before it; indeed, it is not clear that a student would always be better off representing himself. Neither should the Board take steps toward setting up a mock "judicial" process that brings elaborate defense and prosecution mechanisms and rigid college disciplinary rules. Rather, the Board should consider many alternatives, possibly including student representation on the Board, to determine the most flexible, fairest way to treat students...
...Stade said that the different problems posed by the different dormitories--"the geography alone of the various dorms"--would preclude a rigid, Yard-wide application of the guidelines. The extent to which the proposals are adopted will remain largely a matter of discretion for the individual proctor...
...most of the states the elections hinged on local issues. But the rigid anti-inflationary policies of the Federal government have put a hard squeeze on Brazil's working population, whose wages are being held down while the cost of living continues to rise. So while the defeat of government candidates was not the blanket condemnation of the new regime that it might seem, it still indirectly indicated strong currents of disapproval of government policy. Thus in the three states where national issues were at stake: Minas Gerais, Guanabara, and Goias, the Federal government's candidates were defeated...