Word: rigidities
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Some two years ago, Kharkov Professor of Economics Evsei Liberman startled the Soviet establishment with a Pravda piece urging a switch from rigid, centralized Marxist planning to Western-style profit guidelines for factories. As Liberman saw it, factories would produce only what retail stores could sell. The proposal was more pre-revolutionary than revolutionary, and it touched off a storm of protest from orthodox Marxists...
...kindly (67°-70°) all year. It is a place that people dream of coming back to, and they do; the phone book is a virtual Who Was Who of retired Navy and Marine Corps brass. To keep San Diego unspoiled, the city fathers long ago adopted rigid zoning laws. For decades, all attempts to attract new industry bogged down in the perennial controversy known locally as "geraniums v. smokestacks," and geraniums were practically growing in the streets...
...cutting back work forces, freight rates and passenger service. Labor contracts signed last year will gradually eliminate some 30,000 firemen's jobs, although at a cost of $80 million in wage increases and severance pay this year. With permission from the Government, which is gradually loosening its rigid regulation of the rails, the companies are also granting volume discounts to attract big shippers and are canceling lightly traveled passenger runs...
Fresh evidence mounts weekly that Russia's new team of bosses wants to shuck the rigid trappings of centralized planning in favor of a more flexible, consumer-oriented supply-and-demand system. Scarcely a day goes by without one or another of Russia's government-controlled newspapers beating the drum for less centralized economic control...
...executive of the Berkeley Campus, it will be up to him to interpret and to enforce the rules governing student on-campus political activity. It was former chancellor Strong's assertedly rigid interpretation of these rules that brought him under fire from students and faculty...