Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divided mind." Bleuler (1857-1939) was not satisfied with the rigid 19th century view of "dementia praecox" as a single, precisely definable disease whose victims were doomed to progressive deterioration. In 1911 he characterized the various forms of withdrawal from the real to an unreal world as "a group of schizophrenias." Most importantly, he insisted that continuous deterioration was not inevitable...
...spate of scandals broke about .builders who made windfall profits under 608. In its zeal to tighten up, the FHA overdid things. Even though the windfall profiteers were only a handful among thousands of honest builders, FHA now suspiciously administers its new 207 program, sets extremely rigid standards, digs through construction figures long after it has approved-threatens builders with future disapproval if they balk at making changes. Result: many builders feel so harassed that they no longer put up the middle-income housing they could build profitably with...
...committee concluded: "There is not enough evidence available to permit a rigid stand on what the relationship is between nutrition, particularly the fat content of the diet, and atherosclerosis." Therefore it did not recommend "drastic dietary changes, specifically in the quantity or type of fat in the diet of the general population." Instead, the committee pleaded for prompt, thorough and uncompromising research to fix the facts. But it made a notable concession to the foes of fats, and especially saturated fats, by conceding that in any well-balanced diet for general good health, the fat content should be sufficient only...
...from Congress in 1954 a grudging bit of price-support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...
Benson wants Congress to get rid of rigid, mandatory price supports altogether, grant the Agriculture Secretary authority to set support under any farm commodity at whatever level he deems suitable, from 100% down. If Benson gets his way, the Government will no longer use supports to try to make farming profitable even for an inefficient farmer on an obsolete small farm. Supports would serve only to prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields...