Word: rigidness
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...shattered tail fin provides a clue to why Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into a mountainside, taking 520 lives. President Botha's "manifesto" for South Africa disappoints opponents of apartheid. Iran's rigid theocracy harbors fanaticism and little hope for change. How a U.S. hostage managed to film his Shi'ite captors in southern Lebanon...
...leaders, and adding safety devices to prevent the inadvertent launching of submarine-based missiles. The owls do not slight the importance of arms control. They want to preserve existing arms-control treaties and negotiate new ones. They disdain such simplistic solutions as a freeze on nuclear weapons or a rigid policy of no first use. "You can be a hawk and an owl," notes Carnesale, "or you can be a dove and an owl." But in either case, presumably, wiser...
...regime likes to blame much of what it regards as decadent behavior on Western influence, particularly that of the U.S. And there is no more powerful symbol of Iran's rigid stance before the outside world than the 25-acre American embassy compound at Ayatullah Talagani Street. Today it is in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards, its walls still daubed with the students' anti-American slogans...
...things we wanted to work hard on was not to be too rigid,” he says in response to concerns that students whose families make just over $40,000 or just over $60,000 a year might not receive benefits comparable to the aid given to families earning slightly less...
...What frustrated me is that I couldn’t apply biology to my life,” she says. “I had it all figured out, ever since high school, but slowly realized that [medicine] was perhaps too rigid a path...