Word: rigidness
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...decision was a victory for General Motors and Ford, which faced combined fines of up to $600 million because their vehicles did not and would not meet the 27.5-m.p.g. standard for 1986, 1987 and 1988. Both companies had campaigned vigorously against rigid enforcement of the law, contending that tens of thousands of autoworkers would be laid off as the firms slowed production of larger cars to bring the average m.p.g. for all their vehicles down to the standard...
More intimate use of the alloy is made by Japan's Wacoal Corp., which last week began marketing its Memory Wire bras in the U.S. for about $30. The new product avoids a difficulty common to many regular wire bras, which can become twisted and more rigid after each washing. What next for the wonder metal? Says a manufacturer of the alloy: "A dented automobile fender that could be returned to new with a blow dryer sounds great, but it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce...
From a wide alleyway where six colts and a mule have withstood an early downpour, Jay, a lanky cowboy from northern Wyoming, turns a wild-eyed sorrel horse into the corral where Ray is waiting on his gray mare. The colt's body is rigid, and he lets out the kind of snorts that make a cowboy take a deep seat on frosty mornings. "A horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often...
...chief complaints by the taxi drivers focused on "police harassment," which they said includes excessively rigid enforcement of traffic laws, unwarranted parking tickets, insulting behavior, and comparatively lax enforcement of the cabs' right to stay in areas designated as taxi stands...
Honesty is a trait that has long marked Carter's music. So have obscurity, density and a resolute unwillingness to compromise. As one of the leading (and one of the last) exponents of academic serialism, a postwar compositional style marked by rigid mathematical organization of pitch and rhythm, Carter tends to be honored more in words than with performances. But his String Quartet No. 2 and No. 3 won Pulitzer Prizes in 1960 and 1973, and a hard core of enthusiasts rapturously greets each new work. The Second Quartet treated each instrument as an individual; the Third paired them...