Word: rigidness
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...Missouri, five years ago, is pleased that a younger generation of politicians is finally taking power in France. "Whoever is elected, it will mean an end to the gerontocracy. It's time to move to something more dynamic," he says. Pourquié left France out of frustration with the rigid state-funded scientific establishment - and because the American lab where he now works, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, offered him a package of pay and perks that was four times what he was receiving back home. Yet he and his French wife are bringing up their young daughter bilingually...
...bagging several silvers and bronzes too. Their one failure came in the sport's blue-ribbon event: the 10-meter board competition. China's formidable sports machine knows that it only has itself to blame for that loss. But it was willing to lose a gold to enforce a rigid discipline on its prized athletes...
...rhetoric of flexibility and openness is to become reality, it must be explicitly enshrined in the legislation, not left to discretion of a bureaucracy. Leery of the creation of a constraining system, we previously proposed a two-tiered system. One tier would include general education classes with rigid criteria listed separately at the front of the Courses of Instruction. A second tier would consist of a broad array of departmental courses so that students would have more choices of classes to take to fill their requirements. General education classes would have to compete to get students and could not merely...
IRBs are coming under increasing criticism inside the ivory tower, with professors blaming the groups for stifling academic freedom in order to follow overly rigid rules that claim to protect human research subjects. Medical School professor Edward Greg Koski ’71, former director of the federal office that oversees IRBs, said: “In the ‘cover your ass’ mentality that has developed over the last decade, we’re now in a situation where IRBs do really foolish, stupid things in the name of protecting human subjects but really to cover...
...genre may be specifically political or more broadly humanist, but its codes and attitudes are as rigid as those for an old-time western or musical. The plot typically begins with a decent person suffering some outrage by an oppressive overlord, whether military, governmental or corporate. It goes on to chronicle the steps by which our hero either exacts righteous revenge or, if it's a tragedy, is crushed by the system. The goal of the movie is to provoke some fellow feeling for the world's underdogs. Then, cleansed and spiritually enriched, you can return to American Idol...