Word: rigidities
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...What time is it?” an authoritative figure in the front seat barks at her. “By my watch, 6:42.” There is some half-hearted reprimand and for a moment it seems like the army is the cold, rigid entity that stereotypes and war movies are made of. Until the “Jeopardy!” theme song starts playing...
...laughing, because the E.U.'s biggest economy is also among its sickest: 3.94 million unemployed workers are draining government coffers, the GDP will grow only .5-.75% this year and the budget deficit will bust the E.U.'s 3% limit. Business leaders blame high taxes, expensive welfare programs and rigid labor laws, but the government seems to have learned nothing. "The [plan's] only really specific measures are tax increases," says Commerzbank economist Ralph Solveen. The agreement would cut barely €3 billion of Germany's nearly €150 billion in state subsidies while extending taxes on energy, consumer goods...
...once snapped at a backbench MP, agonizing over whether to vote to support the government, “damn your principles; stick to your party.” He was eloquently but utterly wrong. Developing one’s own principles and ideals is infinitely more important than supporting rigid party allegiances whose sole purpose is getting individuals elected who share one’s outlook. That the Harvard Democrats currently stand prepared to campaign for anyone who pins a donkey button to their lapel is, appropriately enough, asinine...
...drinking was disciplined and good. Few choices in life are so clear, so difficult, but the hardest thing he ever did also worked for him. This ally suggests that Bush's decision to render his own life into a fundamental choice feeds his tendency to apply a similarly rigid template to other difficult calls...
Fallows, though, said that journalism benefits from not requiring interested individuals to follow a rigid course of education or earn a certain degree...