Word: rigidly
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...there comes for another president an era of radically altered conditions, sharp change, and formidable obstacles.” These words could serve as a first draft for outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ final address. Much like Summers, Pusey was criticized for his rigid leadership style. The president of Union College, Harold C. Martin, once called Pusey “obdurate”, but Pusey said he preferred the term “intractable.” In addition to his stodginess, Pusey was heavily criticized for his inability to control student unrest after the 1969 University...
...Larijani: We have to see what the problem is, in order to design a compatible foreign policy for that. Diplomacy does not grow in vacuum. We are not rigid in our policy. What is there to make us change our foreign policy...
...sperm’s constant wriggling and rigid plasma membranes made them difficult targets to study using the traditional patch-clamp technique. The patch-clamp method uses a tiny pipette to delicately rupture the plasma membrane of cells to measure the flow of electrical currents...
...even know she was in. Awkwardness abounds when Rachel hesitantly asks her co-workers if they believe in soul mates, or whether they’ve ever “experimented” with girls. Overall, the main problem with “Imagine” is a rigid screenplay full of clichéd lines more fitting for a Lifetime movie-of-the-week. Despite the formulaic writing, the flick is bolstered by stellar turns from Headey and Goode, as they both outshine heroine Rachel. For her part, Headey is absolutely adorable as a down-on-her-luck woman...
...Bilbao when it opened. “Everybody was amazed. Either you love or you hate it. But maybe they say the same thing about Michelangelo,” Yanguas says. Godfrey, a Yale and Edinburgh-educated artist, says that he has been working with this style of non-rigid steel forms for about ten years, and at this large scale for about five. This kind of work, he says, is meant to be interactive—it’s fine to stand in the large circle at the base of the sculpture. He says the piece is meant...