Word: rigidly
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...enmeshment with the religious right. He called for devout Christians to take a two-year fast from politics. And in a remarkable sign of a new era, the orthodox Evangelical Rick Warren invited Democratic Senator Barack Obama to address a conference on AIDS. What was once a seemingly rigid and monolithic group was revealed to be actually more diverse, nuanced and open to debate than once seemed possible...
...talking directly to the North Koreans, among others, and it may be in the discreet bilateral talks, particularly those involving various combinations of the U.S., North Korea and China, that the six-party process will succeed or fail. With the alternative proverbially too ghastly to contemplate, the rigid opening positions may still become more flexible...
...network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where they...
...Dean William C. Kirby began to address this by creating divisional deans to oversee tenure offers for related groups of departments. This is a step in the right direction, but Harvard must redouble its efforts to compensate for structural problems that repel interdisciplinary scholars. Harvard’s stubbornly rigid system of departments and schools should not prevent the University from conducting research in important interdisciplinary areas. An institution of Harvard’s size and reputation cannot afford to have such large gaps of expertise; its scholarship (and the tangible worldly benefits that come from it) will suffer...
...spontaneity requires a surprising amount of structure.“You’re always caught off-guard. That’s the whole point,” Guest explains. “But it’s not a free for all. It’s very rigid in its preparation.”The pair have co-written “Guffman,” “Show,” “A Mighty Wind,” and this latest outing, and Guest has directed all four. Before production begins, Guest and Levy...