Word: rigidness
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...Reagan could easily squander his clout if he insists on making every legislative proposal a rigid test of ideological wills, as some within the Administration seemed inclined to do. "Going over the head of Congress is not going to work this time unless he can show that the Democrats have become recalcitrants," says a member of the House Republican leadership. "He's got to try to work with Congress first." That hardly seemed to be too much to ask of any President, even one who carried 49 out of 50 States...
...single man, solitary on stage, stands staring through a piece of rectangular plastic, a small, open circle rounded by red at its center. He falls backward, rigid, his body hitting the ground so hard it raises clouds of dust and makes a sound like a dull detonation. A siren starts to shriek. It could be a warning, or a summons...
...process that is not very rigid, which would probably be unhealthy, is going to be affected by a certain amount of politics," says Secretary to the Faculty John R. Marquand...
White met with his three fellow panelists before the debate. "We wanted to be sure that, given the rigid format, we would strike a balance," he says. "There was a need to cover as many subjects as possible, but we also hoped to dig deep, to get the debaters to be specific or maybe to say something unpredictable. Because I have been covering racial affairs since 1967, I insisted on including questions on civil rights, particularly as the issue had not been raised in the presidential debate the week before. And of course the questions to the two candidates could...
...longer do top cartoonists labor at drawing gun-at-the-head cartoons to satisfy some publisher's sobersided crotchets. Appearing in many papers gives them freedom. Absorbed by politics, they have their own biases and constantly interview their own reactions, but they don't often let a rigid partisanship keep them from a clever idea that will express a public mood. Undoctrinaire iconoclasm is their style. They think more in metaphors than in arguments and don't want to dull a witty simplicity with a weighty qualification. Peters says, "We've been drawing all our lives...