Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remain entrenched. "Our aim is to produce good merchandise," says Bonchy, "and to keep workers employed for a full year's production. It was an example set by my father and brother." Though 50% unionized, D. & H. Cohen Ltd. has never had a strike. Quality standards are Scottishly rigid. One West Indian store, which asked for low-priced kilts, received the typically brisk reply: "This is not in our line of production...
...EUGENE MOVER Assistant Professor of Economics University of Illinois Urbana Sir: The South Vietnamese are faced with two alternatives, a rightwing oligarchy operating under a facade of democracy, or a rigid but efficient socialist dictatorship which at least perpetrates some social and economic reforms. A very substantial number of impoverished, downtrodden South Vietnamese peasants would seem to prefer the latter, judging by the efficacy of the Viet Cong in battle and in proselytism of the populace...
...raises the depressing question: How may a system which is concerned with keeping power relations rigid be transmuted to one which sets higher value on human development without power itself being utilized in the change; will not such a change involve conflict? Perhaps pain and suffering...
...Rigid standards applied in the form of examinations have the effect of controlling the numbers of students entering occupations for which there is a surplus such as lawyers, pharmacists, and architects. The same rationale also dictates a reduction in the number of students in occupations badly needed by the country, for instance, medicine and dentistry. Not only is the country deprived of the services of more leaders and experts under such a system, but the catastrophe to individuals is immeasurable. The duplication of some programs, such as law in two universities and planed in a third, and the absence...
Chiseling is a part of the Asian ambiance, from the ramshackle capital of lazy little Laos to the broad boulevards of booming Bangkok and the expense-account nightclubs of prosperous Japan. Even rigid Communist disciplinarians have failed to suppress the fast-buck artist: from Red China come tales of profiteering in the communes; refugees report that shady officials do a brisk business in exit permits; and the government is constantly renewing its "Four Cleans" anticorruption campaign. As for North Viet Nam, Hanoi recently headlined a Politburo official's complaint that party members were indulging in "dubious financial situations...