Word: rigidness
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...students said they often found that older people came into the discussions with rigid mindsets...
...think once certain people make the argument that tenure equals academic freedom, then you have a construct that is rigid and I think false," said Andres Diehl, director of communications at Bennington...
...Levitt and about 35 other students, Harvard's special concentrations option is a godsend. It allows them the freedom to craft a field of study outside the Faculty's 41 concentrations, with their rigid requirements and narrow specialties...
...draw faculty to the College posts, council members discussed allowing assistant' professors who serve as senior tutors to extend their time at Harvard, according to Associate Professor of German Peter J. Burgard. Such a proposal would bend Harvard's rigid eight-year maximum term for untenured faculty...
Even if it turns out that Kim has a firm grip on power, he may not be able to hold on to it very long. He faces a policy dilemma that carries the seeds of his destruction: keeping the country isolated and politically rigid will result in widespread starvation and economic collapse, whereas serious efforts at reform will either topple the regime or lead to a coup by hard-liners. In the meantime, the U.S. hopes Kim will manage to stay around long enough to negotiate away his nuclear bomb program -- if he intends to do so and his rivals...