Word: rigid
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...brewing magnate and backer of conservative causes. Today it receives about a third of its $ 10 million annual budget from foundations, many of them begun by ideological sympathizers like Pittsburgh Moneyman Richard Mellon Scaife and Industrialist John Olin. Another third is contributed by business corporations, though Heritage's rigid opposition to Government regulation and protectionism has angered executives of some major corporations that profit from such measures. The final third comes from 130,000 individual donors...
...negotiating table. Nonetheless, one has to wonder how the White House can escape their past rhetoric on the issue. Unless the Soviets agree to on-site inspection--unlikely in the extreme--the Reaganites will have to accept that there is value to an arms control agreement with less rigid guidelines on this issue. They show no signs of doing this...
...Reagan could easily squander his clout if he insists on making every legislative proposal a rigid test of ideological wills, as some within the Administration seemed inclined to do. "Going over the head of Congress is not going to work this time unless he can show that the Democrats have become recalcitrants," says a member of the House Republican leadership. "He's got to try to work with Congress first." That hardly seemed to be too much to ask of any President, even one who carried 49 out of 50 States...
...single man, solitary on stage, stands staring through a piece of rectangular plastic, a small, open circle rounded by red at its center. He falls backward, rigid, his body hitting the ground so hard it raises clouds of dust and makes a sound like a dull detonation. A siren starts to shriek. It could be a warning, or a summons...
...process that is not very rigid, which would probably be unhealthy, is going to be affected by a certain amount of politics," says Secretary to the Faculty John R. Marquand...