Word: rigidness
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...pants, kimono-inspired collars, obi sashes and details taken from ceremonial robes. "It's true I was influenced by Japan," says Armani. "But the real inspiration is born when you examine what you did last season and try to sharpen your focus, softening a line that was too rigid, changing a color that was too hard." As a former fabric designer, Armani starts every collection by putting together threads, colors and weaves in an innovative selection of materials. "He spends days just looking at fabric samples," says his business partner Sergio Galleotti; there are 100 different materials...
...publishing a book in June, A Danger of Democracy (Westview Press; 184 pages), analyzing the selection process. In it he cites the need for "thinking delegates" who carefully deliberate on their choice for President. Like other critics of the present system, Sanford wants to liberate convention delegates from their rigid commitment to a particular candidate. Under the present system, the delegates have virtually no flexibility to adapt to changing political conditions once they are selected, says Sanford. "They are instructed and bound more precisely than when they were bound and driven by the bosses." And the nominees they pick...
...papers held on somehow, anachronistic, silly sheets put out by oddball reporters working for befuddled editors, until one day, out of the blue, the paper would be sold out from under them. The editorial thrust grew nostalgic and bitter, full of red-baiting, rigid middle-class values, and Hearst-like pretensions towards social and political prominence. And as the papers wandered along in permanent adolescence, the family drifted away in their cars, mansions, clubs, and sports...
...Review was wise to scrap the plan it originally adopted three weeks ago and replace it with an affirmative action policy that avoids rigid quotas or targets but still aims to increase minority and women representation. The original mechanical procedure would have been an ineffective means to achieve more diversity. Underlying any affirmative action policy is a belief that a person who has been underprivileged--economically, socially or educationally--in the past will achieve a level of academic performance beneath his or her potential. But if past deprivation is the explanation for the fact that over the past two years...
...Dean Rosovsky defended the study, which was overwhelmingly supported by the Faculty Council in late October, as neither prescribing rigid quotas for minorities or women, nor causing "a decline in quality...