Word: rigidness
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...increased international aid to spur additional growth in debtor countries. But the Argentine economist warned that the debt burden is not the root cause of the region's economic problems of endemic poverty, inflation and slow growth. Many of those ills are self-inflicted by what Musich called "rigid inward policies," meaning excessive bureaucratization, protectionism and state domination of local economies. Said he: "With or without the debt, Latin American economies would face the necessity of removing these structural impediments...
...formal classroom situation will be a big change. I'm not used to having set times for everything," he says. "On the ranch we would study 12 hours a day if it rained and on other days not at all. I have to prepare myself for the structured rigid schedule that will be thrust upon...
...improve their hiring practices. The court did set up some general ground rules for affirmative-action plans: they should be limited in duration and not "unnecessarily trammel" the rights of white workers. They must be carefully tailored to remedy the precise type of discrimination in each case and avoid rigid quotas. Those guidelines leave room for considerable argument in the lower courts, and no doubt affirmative- action plans will continue to be challenged by whites with the backing of the Reagan Administration...
...opinions and policies would be enough in another time to have protesters marching in the streets, or worse. And yet something about Reagan soothes and unites--even though the effects of his programs may repel. He softens the meaner edges of conservatism with populist effusions, reaching outside the rigid framework of ideologies to the pool of shared American experience, to our dreamy nostalgias. Two landslides and six years on, the Gallup poll gives Reagan a 68% approval rating, the best he has done since May 1981, after he was shot and responded gallantly to the ordeal. Pollsters say Reagan...
Over there, the hierarchies of entertainment still closely corresponded to the more rigid hierarchies of social station. Caught between postwar exhaustion and a tradition of hard-line cultural formalism, young Europeans were a cinch to be enthralled by the out-front vitality of Elvis Presley and James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Mary Martin. "The musicals of the '40s and '50s," recalls Andrew Lloyd Webber, the British composer of Evita and Cats, "came out at a time when your national spirit was able to afford a great deal more than what we in Britain could. You had greater optimism." Fizzy...