Word: rigidness
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...Though a rigid application of that law would indeed threaten to put the Government out of business in a lot of ways, there are perfectly sensible people in Washington who see the act as primarily a way of making all branches of Government rethink what the Government does and what it is willing to pay for. "We need a reordering of the relationship between the Federal Government and the people," says Gramm, and that is a view that many can endorse...
...disappears into a black hole, it deserves to be looked at as a classic example of how a President crafts an agreed-upon version of an event and puts it across. Remember the anticipatory worries: Did Reagan know enough about nuclear warfare even to discuss it? Was he so rigid that he would pass up any possibility of compromise, or was he so naive that he might give away the store? More than any Administration before it, the White House samples public opinion almost every night during major events (if the public seems too optimistic, "lower expectations"). The polls showed...
...subjects talk about death, murder, suicide in the thousands; they describe the stench of rotting and burning flesh; they recall the feeling of human hair in their hands as theywere compelled to shave those condemned to murder; they describe the feeling of carrying stiff corpses rigid from the gas chambers. At most one could attempt to convey the feeling of watching it, of listening to people speak about unspeakable horrors which they have themselves experienced. In nearly 10 hours, (the film is shown in two halves, on separate nights) there is not a slow moment, not a gratuitous detail...
Partially made up of former CCA members, the Coalition last month released a letter signed by five ex-CCA leaders who charged that their former organization's platform was "rigid and doctrinaire." CCA-backed candidates dismissed the statement and called the signers has-beens in the party...
...Mexico's capital, however, was built on an alluvial lake bed. As a result, the seismic waves, though diminished in intensity on their trip from the coast, were amplified in the city's sediment foundation. Many tall buildings in the densely populated metropolis may not have been built to rigid quake- resistant standards. Indeed, some turned out to be just the right height to vibrate or resonate sympathetically with the frequency of the seismic waves, thus shaking with greater vigor than other buildings...