Word: rigidness
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...world through the processes of categorization and idealization. Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine and a prominent critic of the American educational system, visited our sophomore tutorial last year and emphasized the fact that history texts make past events look like the products of superhumans and rigid ideals, when in reality most were the result of a fluid mixture of chance and compromise made by people much like ourselves. He hammered into us the need to distinguish between books and life when trying to learn about the world...
...four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military officer renowned for his rigid back and fierce determination...
...chief of the U.S. Screen Actors Guild, agreed that one of their biggest union problems had been opposition from obstreperous left-wing members. More substantively, Hawke assured Reagan, along with Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, that he did not consider himself bound by the rigid foreign policy planks favored by the left wing of his Labor Party. Those planks call for, among other policies, an end to Australia's military aid to Indonesia and resumption of aid to Viet Nam. Indeed, Hawke's main purpose in coming to Washington was clearly to reaffirm...
...West European recovery lagging behind the U.S.'s? The answer, according to Herbert Giersch, director of the University of Kiel's Institute for World Economics, is that European economies are too rigid to respond quickly enough to the rapidly changing world economy. Said he: "We are lagging in terms of flexibility of the labor market, in terms of product innovations and also in just entrepreneurial spirit in comparison with...
...gregarious central banker has been one of the designers of the reforms that have seen Hungary unabashedly substitute many market-economy techniques for rigid central planning. As Fekete told the TIME economists, "In the early 1960s we came to the conclusion that central planning was no longer acceptable for Hungary because it was impossible, even in such a small country as Hungary, to decide every important economic decision in one building, even if the people there are the most intelligent people in the world, which they are not. We decided to put the plan under the control of the market...