Word: rigidities
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...concerned about the reporters who came with the mediators. The New York Times began its Monday article from the point of view of Hank Carde, a Washington AIDS activist who had arrived in Ovett to assist the two women. Carde said that he expected to find "an extremely rigid Klan-country type of mentality." Even after discovering that the residents seemed "genuinely caring," the noted that they had "a blind spot on this issue that's really sad and disturbing...
Doctors and hospitals say the rigid insurance caps would not leave them enough money to give patients what they need. Moreover, the plan cuts Medicare spending even as the Medicare population is growing. The only way to make ends meet will by to cut back on medical services. The danger is that patients may be denied critical help...
...government would be able to decide how much the alliances could spend on health care through a system of tight controls on insurance premiums. The government would also set prices for new drugs. Alliances would have the power to slash doctor and hospital fees in order to meet the rigid new budget limits...
...lends the work an engaging dynamic element. The works of Vilhelm Hammershoi are the jewel in Loeb's crown. At first glance, his interiors appear simple a serene; close inspection reveals a sparse and tense atmosphere. Hammershoi relentlessly emphasizes doors, windowframes, skirting boards and architectural form to create a rigid geometry to his compositions, yet renders those visual lines slightly warped. This combination generates intriguingly ambiguous canvases, with an air of pregnant expectation and strain: the very arms of the subject in Interior with Woman Standing at a Table (1899) reach and clutch with sinuous tension...
...sheer modulus measures the rigidity of the medium. The less rigid the medium, the lower the sheer modulus. Generally speaking, this value stays constant...