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...Better!" Near perfect in free skating, she is unexcelled in the taxing compulsory figures hated by most skaters. Her powerful leg muscles give her the iron control required for the rigid maneuvers in which each turn of a figure must be made in the same groove as the previous one. Yet no matter how well Sjoukje does. Gerschwiler always snorts: "You can do better than that...
Where possible, the Pentagon wants parts re-engineered to save money; by relaxing overly rigid circuit requirements, it has chopped the price of capacitors in the Terrier missile from $73.96 to $8.54 each. On the other hand, where quality will save maintenance costs, the Pentagon demands higher standards of contractors. Massive amounts are being saved by putting items once sold by a single company up for competitive bids; in one such case, the cost of each aircraft windshield of a certain type was lowered from $669.72 to $443. Moreover, arguing that Government-supported research often gives a company an advantage...
...treasurer Betty Change '65 suggested that the off-campus houses be affiliated with the House centers without limiting the number of halls for which a student may obtain room choice priority. Anne J. d'Harnoncourt, president of Holmes Hall, said that the plan would divide the college into rigid groups along House lines...
...book Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Perutz compares protein molecules to animals, in the sense that both have a "three-dimensional anatomy laid out to a definite plan, rigid in some parts and flexible in others, with perhaps some minor variations in different individuals of the same species...
...exam know, women probably should be entitled to equality before the law, voting privileges, special employment protection, and independent income, but complete lack of discrimination between the sexes in athletics seems to go too far. The Greeks, who were extremely wise in many respects, were quite rigid on this point. Any woman who even watched the Olympic Games was automatically executed. When the Romans reversed that edict, women apparently became great sports fans and were fond of spectacles such as gladiator fights and chariot races. The illusion of a tender sex has been completely shattered in modern times...