Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harrison (Tom Conti) is paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash. Possessing a terrible lucidity about his sorry state, Harrison wants to die. Self-righteously governed by a rigid ethical imperative, the doctor in charge, Dr. Emerson (Philip Bosco), means to prolong Harrison's existence...
...faculty and graduate students, politically and intellectually very exciting." With the advent of the mid-'60s, however, that serenity disappeared. "That world hadn't changed." Walzer recalls. "What had changed was the war and general politicization of life that flooded into the University and ran up against a fairly rigid and not terribly sensitive administrative structure...
...Jerry Brown, who has made opposition to deficit financing a central theme of his pre-presidential campaign. Another target is Ohio, where a legislator received a letter from Jimmy Carter denouncing the amendment as "political gimmickry" that would be "so filled with loopholes as to be meaningless or so rigid as to tie the nation's hands in time of war or depression...
Unlike most Japanese businessmen who rely on consensus management, Saji constantly dares his 3,700 employees to express their individuality and come up with "breakthrough ideas."; Says he: "Out of a rigid consensus system, no good ideas can emerge."; One of Saji's ideas was to promote his company's beer and wine as well as whisky through franchised Suntory Pubs; 30,000 of them now dot Japan. He also opened a computerized distillery in 1973 near Mount Fuji. With only 75 employees, it turns out 11.8 million gallons a year, or 60% of Suntory's malt...
...their equipment. Most instruments are either bad or terrible. Strings on violins and cellos are steel-cheap, durable, but incapable, as Ozawa says, of making "a mild tone." The conservatory library is sparse and quirky. If the Chinese were brilliant and intense in their execution, they were also rigid. Said one Boston player, "They have been so isolated for so long. They have no concept of style or refinement of sound...