Word: rigidness
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...cited both trees and Mount St. Helens as wreaking more havoc than auto exhausts, leading to a joke in the Reagan press corps about "the attack of the killer trees." Such nonsense has reduced his credibility in this field. Still, as Governor, he earned respect in California by upholding rigid water-pollution and smog-control laws and by protecting an additional 145,000 acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give priority to energy. Carter's priorities seem the reverse, although...
Harvard's set-up provides "a good middle ground between a rigid system of courses and anarchy," Martin Wiener, professor of history and last year's chairman of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, said Monday...
...heading for disaster." Reagan dropped his protective politicking, entered the debate ring in New Hampshire, and his campaign took off. A relaxed personality, Laxalt is a popular figure in Washington, where many other conservatives tend to stand stiffly aloof from the press and their less ideologically rigid colleagues. The Senator has warned Reagan that he should not carry his anti-Government pitch so far as to antagonize the entire Congress. "If you don't have close relations with Congress," he said, "you have to be an ineffective President. Look at Carter." Assured of re-election himself, Laxalt would...
Still, beneath the well-orchestrated harmony and smooth avoidance of controversial votes, pressures were mounting on Thatcher to soften her rigid monetarism as Britain slips deeper into recession. After 17 months in office, the Thatcher government's economic policies were being sharply attacked, not just by trade-union leaders but by industrial managers as well...
...Maru looks like any other ship as it plies the Sea of Japan with a cargo of more than 11,000 bbl. of crude oil. But when the breeze comes up, a microcomputer unfurls a pair of rectangular canvas sails and aligns them to the wind. Stretched tight by rigid metal frames, the 40-ft. by 26-ft. sails resemble windmill paddles more than the billowing canvases of a windjammer. Yet the sails enable this 20th century clipper to move at speeds of up to twelve knots under wind power...