Word: rigidness
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...went through a phase where I was away fromreligion, and returned in a different way," hesays. "I pray and meditate when I want peace ofmind. I have no qualms about praying to any God,and deity--I'm not rigid about it," he says...
...chosen. The son of a small-town cotton broker in Texarkana, Texas, Perot attended the U.S. Naval Academy, spent four years in the Navy and then in 1957 joined the white-shirted brigades of IBM as a computer salesman. The Perot myth was born when he broke with the rigid corporate culture and inflexible commission system of IBM in 1962 to found EDS -- and became a just-folks billionaire seven years later, shortly after he took his company public. During the 1970s, Perot tangled with North Vietnam on behalf of the POWS, the Iranian revolutionaries and naysayers in the Carter...
...this fuss over a church that expounds no exotic new heresies and is unbesmirched by financial and sexual scandals? Hostility focuses especially on the rigid control the church hierarchy exercises over the lives of members. McKean, 37, who left the 3,700-member Boston flock in 1990 to head its Los Angeles offshoot, is the undisputed leader. He personally instructed 10 male elders and assigned them to supervise various regions around the world. McKean says these leaders govern by consensus but adds, "I'm the one who gives them direction." Says Al Baird, a veteran Boston elder...
...directing their energy toward raising money and getting candidates elected. Other pro-abortion rights groups have launched a campaign to force a change in the party platform's antiabortion language. Their chance of success is slim because George Bush is sticking to his antiabortion stance to placate conservatives. That rigid stand could trigger a revolt by Republican women who are threatening to cross party lines to support candidates who favor the right to abortion. "All my adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder, a member of the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif...
...Scylla and Charybdis, mirror designers are charting a variety of bold, new courses. By designing the Keck Telescope mirror as a mosaic of small segments, each the size of a dining-room table, astronomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley was able to make his mirrors both rigid and thin. But to provide images of pinprick sharpness, each segment must be kept perfectly aligned with its neighbors, a task handled by an elaborate electronic network...