Word: rigidness
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...moment, Mikhail Gorbachev appears to have the prestige, backing and energy to enact his plans for revivifying the economy. But without basic changes in the rigid restrictions of a central planning system, it is doubtful that he can turn the country into an efficient economic competitor with the West...
...House and Congress, which could achieve a mix of spending cuts and new revenues. "We can sit down and go to work if he'll give at all," said Speaker O'Neill of the President. But Majority Leader Jim Wright asserted: "The President has no give. None. He is rigid and inflexible...
...designed the Piazza d'Italia and the snazziest part of the 1984 World's Fair. His Galveston arch, a pair of towers connected by wire mesh, is more of the same, a flibbertigibbet accretion of painted waves, plywood sea creatures, banners, arches, gables, windows, lights, action. Aubry's rigid canopy of pleated gold fiber glass, topped by a big wooden fish, is baffling but unequivocally vulgar--like kitsch from another planet, or a collaboration between Claes Oldenburg and Cher. Powell's arch, with its oversize keystones, is a frolicking postmodernist fancy, circa 1980. Jahn has used the tensile imagery...
Such a proposal contains deep political peril. Conventional Washington wisdom holds that it is impossible to raise taxes or cut Social Security unless the congressional leaders of both parties, as well as the President, are actively in support. What is more, there is little time to act. Under the rigid timetables set by Gramm-Rudman, Congress cannot afford, in its usual fashion, to dither all year long over the budget. If lawmakers fail to pass a budget, the automatic cuts will kick in on Oct. 1. Says Democratic Senator Don Riegle of Michigan: "Congress has never, ever, met a timetable...
Here at Harvard the lines defining the relationship of the social sciences have often changed, sometimes reacting to national currents and sometimes shaping them. Energetic personalities conflicting with rigid political alliances have brought down academic departments, and have made the development of the study of psychology a telling case study of human behavior...