Word: rigidness
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...recruitment letters and some extensions of the application deadline. And although this effort may have been a bad public relations move, it was not necessarily bad policy. Any attempt to increase the number of applicants from all backgrounds is worthy, and there is nothing inherently good about a rigid application deadline...
...mainstream Republicans seeking to put the Evangelicals back in their pews -- from which they would supply votes but not leadership -- the religious right's image as sinister, rigid and exclusionary was excellent material. Ditto for liberal opponents like People for the American Way, which monitors the religious right and scores points from its every excess. After the election, Reed scurried to recoup. "This stealth thing is bad for the movement," he announced. "It isn't the future. It's the past, if anything." Reed struggled to practice diversity, conservative style. When he opened a Washington lobbying office, he appointed...
...Treasury Department worker sounding off at one of the "town-hall" meetings the Vice President has been holding with federal employees. It points to the failure of previous attempts to carry out the job President Clinton has given Gore: streamlining the bloated federal bureaucracy, loosening the straitjacket of its rigid rules and making it less maddening for citizens to deal with...
...classic case of a reform that wiped out one evil only to replace it with another. Instead of filling government offices with political adherents of the party in power, it filled them with timeservers -- or at least that is a prominent view. Because of rigid rules for hiring, promotion, raises and dismissals, says Susanne Tompkins, vice president of the Massachussetts Taxpayers Foundation, the system in effect sets as its standard "mediocrity rather than merit...
...fitting week, then, for Clinton to stand in the Rose Garden, ringed by rigid men and women in blue, and declare his support for a major crime bill based on the premise that "the first duty of any government is to try to keep its citizens safe, but clearly too many Americans are not safe today." Both the mood of the country and the climate of his presidency called for the flashing of a sword. That only left the question of whether the bill would pass and whether it would work...