Word: rigidness
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...just putting together the budget for the next four years. In order to make some of the tough choices that have to be made if we are going to achieve welfare reform or tax reform or reorganization of Government, I think the President has to establish some pretty rigid rules. He is trying to force these agencies-and I enthusiastically support that-to start from the first dollar up and see what they can do better with the money we have. I have always been offended by waste...
...number of scholars, declares Price, have concluded that rigid Government administration is far less effective than the old marketplace, and now these academics want to return there for help...
...life-style was typical; so, too, was the rigid insulation of his family from his life in the rackets. At home, a Mafioso cultivates the image of a solid, churchgoing, charity-supporting citizen (see box). On the job, he keeps up a flashy front by wining and dining associates at expensive restaurants and resorts. Nearly every important Mob figure sports a well-kept mistress at gangster affairs. The dichotomy of Mafia life was nowhere seen better than at a flashy Manhattan restaurant where mobsters used to entertain their wives and children on Sunday afternoons and return in the evening with...
...operatic institutions: The Metropolitan Opera and Luciano Pavarotti. The former recently displayed its wares up in Boston at the Hynes Cattleyard, euphemistically known as an "auditorium" and blasphemously used as an opera house. The latter has just fattened his already ample public reputation--while his belly shrinks on a rigid diet--with the television broadcast of "Boheme" brought to us straight from the artistic stage of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Now that the country is high on an opera binge (where else in the world can a prima donna double as a talk show host?) the time seems...
Worthy was born in Boston in the 1920s, the son of a doctor. During Worthy's formative years, his parents actively participated in the NAACP's struggle against segregation. A product of an intellectual family environment. Worthy was admitted to Boston Latin ("very rigid discipline but I learned a great deal") before matriculating at Bates College in Maine ("I considered Harvard, but wanted a small school away from home...