Word: rigidities
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Eliot is not anti-gay, he says, but it is "socially very rigid" and overtly political or controversial behavior is frowned upon by house residents...
...coming to an end. High-level U.S. and E.C. leaders were said to be ever so close to signing an agreement. They weren't close enough. At the last minute the talks foundered on the same sensitive issue that has persistently stymied negotiators: farm subsidies. Unless France reverses its rigid opposition to European concessions, it appears that a trade pact, if one is ever signed, will come too late to bolster George Bush's election prospects...
...most profound impact of the advocacy movement has come within the Food and Drug Administration. The agency has for decades held to the rigid standard that new drugs must be unequivocally proved to be both safe and effective. But in the wake of intense lobbying, the FDA will now consider granting conditional approval to experimental treatments for terminal diseases for which there are few or no medical alternatives. This is a radical shift for the nation's pharmaceutical watchdog. Drugs conditionally approved will be closely monitored and withdrawn if they prove to be too toxic or ineffective...
...WINE at least occasionally. Any of them who latch onto WINE SNOBBERY (Simon & Schuster; $20) will have their eyebrows raised by this self-styled expose of what's behind -- and what sometimes goes into -- the noble beverage. In remorseless detail, British oenophile Andrew Barr explains how France's supposedly rigid appellation laws protect mediocrity more than excellence, why cheap champagne is often better than top brands costing upwards of $40, and how producers have got away with murder -- literally -- by dosing their wines with dangerous additives. Like most Savonarolas, Barr could lighten up a little, but there's no question...
...news of that exchange circulated, the conservative faithful in Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business...