Word: rigidities
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...same confederation, the engineers would probably follow the shipbuilders' lead.) There was, however, little likelihood that any of the strikers would now be content with anything less than the 5% increase granted the railwaymen, or that they in return would have to abandon the restrictive practices (featherbedding, rigid jurisdictional rules, etc.) which keep their productivity from going up as fast as their pay. Warned the London Economist: "The threat to the national economy . . . does not arise solely from the possibility of widespread industrial stoppages. It arises, too, from the possibility of inflationary settlements of these disputes...
...major complaint is that the tutorial bibliography, a list of books for which undergraduates are held responsible on general examinations, has become too rigid a guide for students. Many members of the Department feel that students only cover the necessary sections of the bibliography, and never develop special interests, either independently or in tutorial...
...diseased part of the arteries (TIME, Nov. 26). The first two patients, on whom Bailey based his preliminary announcement, have both done well. One, a man of 52, has gone back to work. But Bailey was not content with the instrument that he used (it had a rigid steel shank), so he soon designed another. The result is a piece of piano wire with a loop handle at one end, a tiny ball at the other, and 1½ in. from the tip, a thicker section with woodscrew thread. Bailey has used this to ream the diseased plaques...
...proud insistence that he will never compromise. He is pathologically suspicious of the U.S. "It's got to the point where Nasser rejects everything the U.S. suggests simply because it comes from the U.S.," said one U.S. observer ruefully. "The trouble is that Nasser has taken such a rigid attitude on every issue that any concession he makes becomes a 'major' concession...
Avenue Montaigne, entering by twos and threes. Their credentials are carefully checked, and they are assigned seats according to a rigid protocol based on the prestige of their publications or the extent of their purchases in the years before. This year the Duchess of Windsor came late and unexpected, had to settle for a seat on the staircase...