Word: rigidness
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...grants, which can be spent in virtually any way the recipients please, give them needed flexibility to meet local requirements. Says Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, Richard Thornburgh: "The President proposes to cut the kinds of programs best adapted to changing times, such as general revenue sharing, while retaining rigid categorical grants [those that finance specific activities like vocational education and the running of mental health centers] that have been festooned on the federal Christmas tree by special interests. This may be good political strategy, but it is poor public policy." Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut III counts 498 federal...
...Iranians believe, Beheshti is motivated less by ideology than by expediency and could well abandon the students if their cause seems lost. Observers note that Beheshti has never allowed the charter of his party to be published. Says one critic: "He does not want to commit himself to a rigid framework of action. He has to move with the tide. " And he adds: "We have not seen the end of Beheshti or his party...
...Although the elements change as swiftly as the shapes of clouds, the weathercaster's three-to-four-minute performance is, in its discipline, as rigid as a sonnet or a haiku. The ritual be gins with the anchorman passing the baton with an oafishly merry transition line like: "Well, buddy, you sure did it to us yesterday, didn't you?" The weatherman casts his eyes downward with a chastened chuckle, accepting responsibility and thereby obscurely associating himself with nature's Higher Authorities...
...friend: "If we wanted to go to parties together, we'd still be married." In fact, Ford tactics often reflect the celebrated advice of Mr. Punch to a young person contemplating marriage: "Don't." Charlotte's web of don'ts includes, with some reservations: rigid enforcement of "house rules" for weekend guests; bedroom segregation of unmarried lovers; gossiping about mutual friends and former loved ones; serving drugs at a party...
...good story, the press sometimes commits its own honor to shielding questionable collaborators. At least, the press should do a better job of alerting readers to the advantage someone, or some group, gains by a particular leak. Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain, thinks journalists are too rigid about protecting a source: "They regard themselves as having the privilege of the Roman Catholic priest. I did point out to one of them once that a priest may have to keep the confessional but he doesn't publish it in headlines...