Word: rigidities
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...MFDP itself is a product of SNCC's belief in the necessity for basic changes in the society. Instead of just organizing locally, SNCC helped to build a state-wide third party, which would provide a liberal alternative to the rigid segregationist policies of both major parties in Mississippi. Currently the MFDP is challenging the recent Congressional elections in Mississippi...
...approach to literature and writing, for example, was extremely, rigid, clearly showing the influence of both feudal classicism and modern dogmatism. The analysis of literature followed an unchanging pattern from theme to precis, to style, and the writing assignments allowed almost no originality...
...Rigid Auditing. A longtime Providence banker who was brought into Textron by Founder Royal Little in 1954 as Little's heir apparent, taciturn, trim-waisted Rupe Thompson runs his far-flung company with a staff of only 83 people on one floor of a Providence office building. He allows his divisions to operate almost autonomously, much as at General Motors, a corporation that Thompson has studied minutely and admires mightily. His staff coordinates the company's affairs, channels profits where needed. "I'm all for delegating responsibility," says Thompson, "but I also ask for accountability." That takes...
...vice president for acquisitions who scrutinizes at least half a dozen proposals weekly. It is now interested in overseas firms (it has two plants abroad) and in U.S. consumer and industrial lines that would balance the defense division's 35% of total sales. Prospective acquisitions, however, must meet rigid guidelines: $15 million to $30 million in annual sales ("We're not trying to compete with General Motors," says Thompson), well-established lines, no overlap of competition with existing Textron divisions, and enthusiasm for merger. "The management," says Thompson, "must want to be with...
...could call on the Queen - always alone. When Elizabeth was a child, the duke was her favorite uncle, and such he remains to both the Queen and her sister, Princess Margaret. But for the duchess nothing changed. As before, she saw herself "confronted with a barrier of turned backs, rigid and immovable...