Word: rigidness
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...left at Harvard Law is unmistakably deflated. In his fall 1989 address to the incoming class, Dean Clark broke with the rigid custom that requires law school deans to urge their students to go to work for Ralph Nader after graduation, and said instead, "No part of the profession has a monopoly on 'doing good.' Helping people to solve their problems--to cope with government agencies and neighbors and spouses--is essential work of lawyers. So is helping the wheels of commerce turn and helping business produce the goods and services needed by society. Do not let anyone convince...
...decades, South Africa's policy of apartheid has rested upon a set of rigid laws reserving 87% of the land for the nation's white minority and requiring strict housing segregation. Last week President F.W. de Klerk introduced legislation that would repeal all racial restrictions on land ownership and permit all South Africans to live where they choose...
...February, veteran journalist R.W. Apple Jr. of The New York Times began a series on the treatment of the press in Saudi Arabia. Apple wrote that "a new credibility gap" had opened in the military's press briefings because of the "rigid press pool system" imposed on the media. The U.S. command refused to allow these 10-person pools to even approach the front lines to verify military reports. And mandatory "security reviews" by other reporters made journalists furious...
...images are only too familiar. The men stare straight ahead, their eyes glazed and puffy, their bodies rigid, unmoving. Their faces, lined with fatigue, show strain and distrust and are discolored by cuts and bruises. "How have you been shot down?" drills a harsh, disembodied voice. "What do you think about this aggression against Iraq?" The men respond woodenly, the rhythms of their speech halting and stilted. Some employ peculiar accents. One lapses into a singsong cadence. Another refuses -- or is unable -- to lift his head...
...large Greek- and Armenian-American lobbies in the U.S. have frequently let grievances against the Turks going back to the days of the Ottomans get in the way of sound policy, common sense and simple fairness. Congress has insisted on apportioning military aid to Greece and Turkey by a rigid and arbitrary formula that links the two, even though geography has assigned Turkey a far more active and vital mission on the front line of international peacekeeping...