Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This semipublic humiliation is only one of the affronts that Jake must bear. His psychiatrist lays out a rigid regimen to revive the patient's libido. At night, Jake must plug himself into something called a nocturnal mensurator, a machine that registers and records signs of arousal during his sleep. He must buy and study "pictorial pornographic material" and also write out a sexual fantasy of his own imagining in not less than 600 words. Try as he might, Jake conies up 73 words short, despite much padding: "With lazy languorous movements she peels off the dress and reveals...
...sometime journalist who heads Afghanistan's Khalq (People's) Party, does not have broad backing; some diplomats in Kabul believe his supporters in the military and among Afghanistan's small educated class number only 2,500 people. Yet the regime shows no sign of bending its rigid Marxist principles. While Taraki professes "full respect for holy Islam," his Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, angrily blames the bloodletting on the meddling of "imperialist lackeys from Iran and Pakistan...
...Soviets will have to shift the planning emphasis from more factories and more workers to more efficient factories and more productivity per worker. Decentralizing the economy so that managers need not clear so many decisions with the sluggish Moscow bureaucracy will also be necessary. For the leaders of the rigid Soviet system, that kind of drastic reform will not be easy...
...five predominantly black campuses, where 70% of the state university's 20,500 black students are enrolled. To pay for the improvements, the Governor agreed to pass up a planned $40 million tax cut. But the effort failed. The university concluded that HEW'S demands were "rigid" and last week sued to prevent the department from cutting off at least $20 million in federal...
...didn't have a syllabus until very late this year, but I think it is a very good idea to request them." William Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry and head of Chemistry 4, said Tuesday. But he added he would be very cautious in declaring too rigid a grading policy in the course...