Word: rigidness
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Before Flatley came on the scene, Irish dance was a rigid affair that required performers to hold their arms tightly at their sides. Flatley, an American-born son of Irish parents, acquired his interest in traditional dance from his mom and dad but did not start taking lessons in his native Chicago until he was 11, an age deemed too old by teachers. In the years to come, he spent most of his time overcompensating with endless practice sessions in his parents' garage. He went on to win dance contests all over Ireland and ultimately loosened up the genre...
...margins. For years the documents were regarded as historical material, not as living guidebooks, says Joe Colvin, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry lobbyist. "It was a fuzzy area," he says, that neither the regulator nor the licensees paid much attention to. The post-Millstone emphasis on "rigid" compliance, another N.E.I. official has complained, "is almost as bad as NRC's reaction to Three Mile Island." Inside the agency, a rift developed between Jackson and the senior staff that had let things slip. Jackson ordered a safety and compliance review of all U.S. nuclear plants, offering utilities...
...said she did not want the Faculty to run a simulation because it might result in the creation of a rigid list of criteria for recommending summa candidates...
Born argued that a policy which gives preference to Cantabrigians is preferable to a more rigid residency requirement...
...soil. Yet his work is unfinished, and the next China will have to come to terms with the fundamental contradiction in his hybrid creation. Even as the country embarked on a headlong pursuit of free-market economics, Deng insisted it be done under the iron fist of a rigid communist political system. The people would be free to get rich but not to challenge or change their leaders. Economic liberties would have to coexist with political bondage. China would continue to be ruled by men, not laws...