Word: rigidness
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...first five years we grew to be a $500 million corporation, which is relatively small. During that time we were profitable, but by no means really profitable," Fox explains. While Sallie Mae busily built a fairly sophisticated marketing network and financial system, the company also was operating under fairly rigid conservative banking practice...
...forces. Instead of a single air force, the Soviets have two: the elite air defense forces, which protect Soviet airspace (and shot down the Korean airliner in September), and the air forces, which are responsible for offensive missions. Despite its impressive growth, the Soviet navy ranks last in the rigid Soviet military hierarchy...
...year by commissions, consultants and critics alike. This week a major new report by a respected reformer offers the most radical proposals yet. In Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (Houghton Mifflin; $16.95), Theodore Sizer argues that the nation's high schools are rigid and out of date, and he calls for a drastic reorganization of the curriculum and school day. Sizer, a former headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., as well as a former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, urges doing away with age-based grades, minimum ages...
Morgan does not hide his disdain for the management style that flourished under ousted Chairman Raymond Kassar. Says Morgan: "The way Atari did business is dramatically opposed to the values I live by and believe in. There was an incredible arrogance at Atari. It was a rigid, unchallenged and unchecked giant, and it has paid every penalty imaginable for its mistakes...
...line between art and entertainment is often indistinct, and never more so than in musical theater. We tend to think of opera, the sung play, as the pinnacle of a form whose lower manifestations include the Viennese operetta and the Broadway show. But such rigid categorizing is myopic. Like M. Jourdain in Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who was delighted to discover that he had been speaking prose all his life, even composers with the most commercial motives may turn out to have been writing memorable, lasting scores. Two of the most electrifying operas...