Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...still can't relax. I developed such rigid habits in that place. But this afternoon I'm really happy. One of our group just telephoned and said Imad was granted a humanitarian visa by the U.S. We all told our embassies about him. He risked his life for us. And now he's free himself. What a marvelous piece of justice...
Black youths have often been attracted to Islam, with its strong image of male assertiveness, black pride and rigid discipline. In particular, Muslim organizations have far outdone Christians in evangelizing prison inmates and ex-convicts. The Lincoln-Mamiya study estimates, however, that the two major North American black Islamic groups have only 120,000 members, and some inner- city pastors claim that fascination with the religion is waning...
...Pegeen's head, staring at her reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond Veronica Lake tresses. But Pousette-Dart was a stiff, poor draftsman, with the deficiencies of the self-taught, and this makes the early totemic paintings, with their biomorphic shapes playing hide-and-seek in the rigid scaffolding of a Cubist grid, look somewhat less than fully achieved...
...these firms, it is no longer career suicide to turn down a promotion or delay a transfer for family reasons. Both companies have jettisoned the rigid "get up or get out" corporate formula that held that managers, like sharks, must constantly move forward or sink. After all, many executives these days are women with small children or women whose husbands are pursuing ambitious careers of their own. John Zimmerman, an MCI senior vice president, cites the case of the corporate-development executive, a mother, who has turned down two promotions in the past year because she did not want...
Maybe not. But these days, as more women find their way into the executive suite, they feel less compelled to act like male alter egos. Some observers, in fact, see the emergence of a new style of management -- most frequently but not exclusively practiced by women -- that is less rigid and hierarchical, more open and inclusive, than the classic male approach. Sally Helgesen, author of The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, calls it a feminine style of management. It is characterized, she says, by talking more frankly with employees, sharing information rather than withholding it and keeping...