Word: rigid
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...general did not come to her vocation easily. One of nine children, she was impressed when her mother brought home destitute people to share the family's spartan meals. But as a teenager, she recalls, "I felt the Salvation Army discipline was too rigid, and for a good deal of time, I refused to go to church...
Bonafini, a large woman of tremendous inner strength and rigid convictions, lost both her sons within 10 months of each other in 1977. She, like so many others, turned to the mothers organization, which allowed her to pour her heart and soul into the quest for justice and posthumous vindication of her children. It also gave these women a support group, a voice, a way of forgetting loneliness while forcing Argentina to acknowledge, then remember, the horror. The mothers carried their despair to Pope John Paul II and to political leaders worldwide; they became the focus of a couple...
...increased international aid to spur additional growth in debtor countries. But the Argentine economist warned that the debt burden is not the root cause of the region's economic problems of endemic poverty, inflation and slow growth. Many of those ills are self-inflicted by what Musich called "rigid inward policies," meaning excessive bureaucratization, protectionism and state domination of local economies. Said he: "With or without the debt, Latin American economies would face the necessity of removing these structural impediments...
...formal classroom situation will be a big change. I'm not used to having set times for everything," he says. "On the ranch we would study 12 hours a day if it rained and on other days not at all. I have to prepare myself for the structured rigid schedule that will be thrust upon...
...improve their hiring practices. The court did set up some general ground rules for affirmative-action plans: they should be limited in duration and not "unnecessarily trammel" the rights of white workers. They must be carefully tailored to remedy the precise type of discrimination in each case and avoid rigid quotas. Those guidelines leave room for considerable argument in the lower courts, and no doubt affirmative- action plans will continue to be challenged by whites with the backing of the Reagan Administration...