Word: rigidness
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...arrival of Clinton nominees Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen, who could be more tolerant of inflation, has the five holdover members groping for new formulas for battling it. The most draconian of these would raise interest rates whenever unemployment falls below 6.5%. (It now stands at 6.4%.) Such a rigid gimmick has little chance of being adopted. "Decision making relies on data, but increasingly on intuition as well," concedes a Fed insider. "The economy has grown more difficult to read...
...This rigid adherence to an allencompassing guarantee of "free speech" is unwise, and debases the very principle of tolerance upheld in our Constitution. Americans should not be afraid to establish that some speech--because of its advocacy of hatred, intolerance, or violence against a particular group of people--is illegitimate and undeserving of legal protection...
...report, however, gave the President leewayto postpone a decision if he saw fit. "Werecommend that... 1994 be a target or planningdate, not a rigid requirment. This flexibility,however, is not meant to be a license for delay,"the report said...
...declining enrollment and struggling to develop a curriculum suitable to the post-cold war era. By doing so, however, they risk losing the very thing that set them apart. Last week a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point acknowledged that the school is no longer a rigid temple of martial arts and science. "I expected a very military environment," says Cadet Jason Squier, a junior from Norwalk, Iowa. "It surprised me that West Point is a lot closer to a civilian college than most people would expect...
However, the crews have been lifting, erging and running all winter as part of their rigid indoor training program...