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...valuable. Riesman regards examinations and grading as manifestations of this pattern. A examination sharply marks the end of one course and the beginning of the next; a grade is a way of producing "packaged people"--it assigns each person to a category which is impersonal and rigid. In both cases, Riesman contends, the artificial "boxes" are damaging...
Along with Sydney, two other major foreign exchanges rode out the storm almost unaffected. In Tokyo, stock prices were already so low that Wall Street's gyrations produced only minor ripples. And in South Africa, rigid government currency controls have so cut off the local financial community from the rest of the world that the Rand Daily Mail index shrugged off Blue Monday with a drop of only one-tenth of a point. Mused one Joburg broker: "There might be something to isolation after...
...extremes by a sense of honor, the President's position has enjoyed almost universal support among his countrymen. In offering to trade a life for a life, deGaulle lowers himself to the level of the O.A.S. and tacitly admits that his former position is untenable. Once he relaxes his rigid stance, he can never regain...
...influences of the home environment on delinquency operate selectively to propel toward maladjustment only those children characterized by specific traits which enhance their vulnerability. Some such traits are essentially constitutional and therefore rigid. For these, it is possible to reduce the hazards of delinquency by altering environmental factors. Other traits are essentially due to sociocultural conditioning and are therefore more plastic and modifiable...
Many debates on the advisability of nuclear test bans have centered around the question of detection. Critics of such bans have often claimed that without a rigid inspection system an agreement on testing would be worthless since there would be no way to tell if a country was trying out new weapons surreptitiously...