Word: hidebound
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Hoyte's ideas are appealing because they attack the malaise of hidebound tradition that plagues our campus. He all but endorsed a real tenure track, which would result in Harvard tenuring homegrown scholars before their hair turns gray. He argued for stronger career development programs, so that moving up the administrative and academic ladder involves more than just kissing the asses of the white males in power. He suggested that the ad hoc process which generally decides whether a scholar gets tenure may systematically eliminate scholars of diverse ideas and backgrounds...
...military has no interest in the personal lives of its researchers, merely in the work produced by them. Yet it fails to take this common sense approach when it comes to its own personnel, perpetuating a hidebound and irrational bigotry...
Without his offensive an hidebound remarks...
...Hidebound Hasty Pudding officers told The Crimson it just can't be done. They appealed, conveniently, to the organization's charter. But we've already seen this semester how charters can change. Just look at the Fly Club...
...this real-life Crusader Rabbit was just getting warmed up. General Motors -- that ossified symbol of America's industrial decline -- volunteered for the Perot treatment when the giant automaker bought EDS in 1984 and GM chairman Roger Smith looked to this take-no-prisoners Texan to shake up the hidebound hierarchy. Within two years, Perot was going public with his bitter and prophetic denunciations of the GM bureaucracy ("I could never understand why it takes six years to build a car when it only took us four years to win World War II"), and the company ultimately paid...