Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Romanians accept a rigid party control and internal monopoly of power by Ceaucescu and his entourage including a fulsome personality cult) in return for a sense of national pride and independence unique in their history of foreign domination. The Russians put up with the luxury of a separate Romanian 'place in the sun', secure in the knowledge that no Prague spring of liberalisation will appear on the streets of Bucharest. With Ceaucescu playing the nationalism and religion cards so skillfully, dissident opposition is weak...
...there is no way, of course, for any system of sophisticated electronics or rigid regulations to keep a foolhardy private pilot from endangering his own or other lives by flying in an alcoholic haze or breaking a safety rule. For that matter taped cockpit conversations have demonstrated all too much inattention to duty among commercial airline pilots as well And as last week's disaster shows so graphically, the element of mere chance in course, timing and speed can doom even the most experienced pilots, as well as the many "souls on board" whose lives ended so innocently...
...said: "People are crying in the streets and in the shops as if someone in their family had died." He was a teacher with a remarkable gift for explaining things through unexpected metaphors, an asker of sharp questions, a man who could defend conservative values without seeming pompous or rigid to the young...
Instead of myriad local water districts, he continues, the U.S. needs large regional authorities to handle pollutin and potability and development of water resources. A Constitutional convention might even be called to reorganize America's rigid international boundaries. Says Byrom: "I dont think the state of Pennsylvania should exist. And the world is sufficiently interdependent that we will come to realize, maybe 50 years from now, that the concept of sovereign nation states is fallacious...
Carter surprised in talks with aides. He finds elBaz, aide to moderate Sadat, unexpectedly technical and difficult. Barak, aide to rigid Begin, seems reasonable and flexible. "Barak was the unsung hero of the entire summit," one U.S. official says. "There would have been no agreement without him. He refused to accept the idea that a particular problem just wasn't solvable...