Word: rigidness
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...which also faces postwar record unemployment and stagnating output. Said Brittan of the difference: "For all its problems, the U.S. still has a fairly flexible labor market. There has been hardly any increase in remuneration per head, after adjusting for inflation, since 1967. Europe suffers from rigid labor markets in which costs never go down or even stabilize. As a result, recessions in Europe now tend to be severe, while booms prove short-lived...
What Happens To inspiration when the author is seemingly flapped by a well-established rigid family and a love hate relationship with the city of his birth Destonomy love affairs sap or sustain his creativity? Can poets make their contemporaries sound obsolete by pioneering new styles or force each other to adopt new techniques. What happens to a poet when he sees hits mentors and friends dying, their deaths so close together as to seem more than a coincidence. Most important, what is the relationship between genius and insanity does one cause the other...
...proteans, as the authors awkwardly refer to them, steered SDS for four years, eventually fading from prominence when their theories failed to translate into long-term success with projects such as ERAP. A new, non-Jewish psychological type grabbed the reins and evolved into what the authors call the rigid authoritarian rebel": all of the protean's hang-ups, minus his respect for intellectual matters and his adherence to non-violent tactics. Total immersion in anti-war protest became inevitable after the huge U.S. troop deployments of 1965 and intensification of the draft, say Rothman and Lichter...
...gleaned is that these methods rely on questionable interpretations of highly subjective data. The Thematic Apperception technique, for instance, consists of a set of vague pictures about which subjects are asked or write fictional stories. From that, Rothman and Lichter apparently quantify the myriad characteristics of protean versus rigid authoritarian...
...second industrial revolution," said Chen, "some kind of optimum government policy will be vital in guiding the path of economic development." Chen argued that most Asian nations are still groping to find that policy. In South Korea, too rigid government planning has led the country into several unsuccessful ventures like automobile manufacturing. The crucial task for governments, said Chen, will be to seek out a course that is neither too lax nor too heavyhanded...