Word: constrictiveness
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Eventually, he says, he consented to small annual salary hikes, "under heavy pressure from some people who said that implicitly this [self-imposed salary freeze] might constrict other people's salaries." Today the president refuses to accept any salary increase greater than that accorded the Faculty, he says...
...complicated enough having six people without adding a manager." Jones says. Having a consultant for purely financial matters tended to constrict the team, he explains, by introducing worries about an audience and "what will sell, what will go over." Left to themselves, the Pythons adhere to only one rule: "If we're not laughing when we're reading the script, then it's a bad sign...
Presidents Bok and Horner echoed Moses, and both warned freshmen not to constrict themselves by making career decisions too quickly...
...muscles contract and relax in quick succession. But if they are strained beyond their limit, they rebel. An overtaxed muscle suddenly goes into a sustained contraction, or spasm. It becomes a hard, knotty mass. The tiny blood vessels that bring it oxygen and nourishment and carry off wastes constrict. Soon some of the cells in the stricken muscle die, and the body sends out a distress signal in the form of a sharp pain...
Rather than grappling with the conflicts produced by Lvy recruiting, Yale's Giamatti would constrict it. President Bok said last week that although he acknowledges the need for a limited amount of recruiting in the Lvy League, he "would prefer none." To the admissions committee, recruiting and its concomitant problems is a fact of life; to coaches, it is a grim reality; and to athletes, it is appreciated but sometimes bothersome. And although the University is still compiling statistics to determine whether the current policy has improved the applicant pool and Harvard's athletic success, recruiting is clearly here...