Word: rigidities
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...these firms, it is no longer career suicide to turn down a promotion or delay a transfer for family reasons. Both companies have jettisoned the rigid "get up or get out" corporate formula that held that managers, like sharks, must constantly move forward or sink. After all, many executives these days are women with small children or women whose husbands are pursuing ambitious careers of their own. John Zimmerman, an MCI senior vice president, cites the case of the corporate-development executive, a mother, who has turned down two promotions in the past year because she did not want...
...product contains several innovative features as well, including 54 patented inventions. Some are subtle: electronic controls for the automatic transmission that allow smoother shifting. Others are more fundamental: the body of a Saturn is built atop a very rigid space frame, which gives structural integrity and protection for passengers. The space frame is not unique to Saturn, but it supports a special feature: all the vertical body panels (doors, fenders, quarter panels) attached to it are made of plastic polymer, which doesn't rust and resists low-velocity denting. The horizontal panels are still made of steel...
...drive to promote the Japanese-inspired team concept at its plants has often been greeted with suspicion, if not outright hostility, and many line workers cling resolutely to the Old World: a rigid, adversarial system characterized by strict seniority rules and a crippling multiplicity of job classifications. The result is a patchwork of different systems among GM plants, many of which are light-years behind the highly efficient Buick City factory in Flint, Mich., where the Buick LeSabre is produced. Overall, GM has made virtually no gains in productivity and remains the highest-cost automaker in the U.S. In fact...
...their sources than the idealizing critics who erect value systems on the back of their work. The process came to a climax in the '60s with Pop art. Moreover, since "low" sources cycle into "high" products that are then cycled back, as style, into "low" areas again, the supposedly rigid divisions between fine and popular art are more like a maze of mirrors, one reflecting the other ad infinitum...
...protest the authorities' killing of students during an antigovernment demonstration. In the 1930s Paz was a Marxist. Today communist holdouts regard him as a conservative largely because he has become a critic of "simplistic and simplifying ideologies of the left." His equally sharp disapproval of the rigid right has put him at the lonely center, where his poetry has taken on its deeply personal and moral tone...