Word: rigidities
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...important, Britain demanded a separate "opt out" clause, under which its Parliament may vote later in the decade on whether or not to adopt the ECU. Moreover, only three countries currently meet the criteria. At a time when average E.C. unemployment is nearly 10%, belt tightening to achieve the rigid goals will hardly be popular...
...Japanese are rigid conformists; Americans practice individualism up to--and sometimes over--the brink of selfishness. Americans believe that if they make a better or cheaper product, other people will always buy it, because fairness equates with economic self-interest. The Japanese believe it is almost unpatriotic to buy a foreign product when that might hurt their own farms or factories...
...overcome discrimination. The civil rights compromise, according to congressional negotiators from both parties, was not intended to have any effect on affirmative-action programs but was designed to make it easier for women and racial minorities to prove discrimination, while not forcing employers to hire and promote according to rigid racial quotas...
...Martin's Press; $19.95) and an expert witness on memory in the cases involving the McMartin Preschool, Oliver North and the Hillside Strangler, speculates that such prestige- enhancing revisionism by Thomas could be one explanation for why his memory differs so radically from Hill's. Thomas is a "rigid person who insisted on the prerogatives of his position," observes Emory's Neisser; such people can be "good repressers" of unpleasant memories. As for Hill, Loftus suggests that it is possible she unconsciously confused some past experiences. "Could she have gotten the information elsewhere and created this story?" asks Loftus...
Columbus was in fact a very rigid man, and his inflexibility combined with piety and opportunism to produce behavior not far from paranoid. His growing ambition encouraged the belief, typical of obsessed loners, that everyone except God was against him. He was so certain that his enterprise of the Indies was a fulfillment of God's designs that he even greeted the wreck of the Santa Maria as a sign of divine approbation. He had an apocalyptic turn of mind...