Word: rigidness
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Vacationers at Padre begin a typical day at noon. Since the sun is intense all day in this part of the country, there is little need to conform to a rigid tanning schedule...
...brains behind the right wing's wildly successful direct-mail operations. "The question is, Who decides, us or the government?" Stone will soon announce creation of Republicans for Choice, a political-action committee that will support pro- choice G.O.P. candidates and work to change the Republican platform's rigid antiabortion plank. Like Atwater, Stone is not flying solo. "Let's just say we know what she is up to," says a Bush aide...
...biggest problem has been dealing with the Soviet ministries, which still adhere to rigid regulations in doling out precious supplies. Explains Cohon: "When we need more sand or gravel for building and go to the department in charge, they say, 'Sorry, you're not in my five-year plan...
...last week reflected the tug-of-war going on within the leadership. Ryzhkov made clear that his approach represented a "third alternative" to making minor corrections in central planning or plunging headlong into a free-market economy. Over the next two years, he said, the state intended to use "rigid directive measures" to reduce the national deficit from about 10% to 2.5% of GNP and increase supplies of consumer goods. A real market with varied forms of property ownership would take shape after 1992, he added, when the state would begin to rely primarily on credits, investments, pricing, taxation...
...client would kill him, Vives pleaded. The banker refused, and British authorities cooperating with the DEA froze the account. Not all countries were as helpful. U.S. agents said they tracked Rodriguez's money to the Cayman Islands, Spain and Montserrat, but local authorities said they could not cooperate, citing rigid bank-secrecy laws as an excuse...