Word: rigidness
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...Continent's fate is not in its own hands but in those of the superpowers. There are signs that Eastern Europe too is experiencing a change. Says Rumanian-born Political Scientist Pierre Hassner, a research fellow at Paris' National Foundation of Political Science: "There is a tension between the rigid East-West strategic balance on the one hand and changing popular attitudes and life-styles on the other. The security arrangement has guaranteed four decades of peace, but people are increasingly weary of a system that represses their aspirations...
...pious Jews who believed in the resurrection of the dead, rewards and punishments for this life in the next and rabbinic authority to interpret Jewish law. These two parties, the School of Hillel and the School of Shammai, clashed shortly before Jesus' birth. Jewish tradition records that the rigid Shammaites held religious control throughout Jesus' life and during the founding decades of the Christian Church. But by A.D. 70 the more flexible Hillel school had become pre-eminent and the predecessor of today's traditional Judaism. In Falk's theory, Jesus was a Pharisee of the Hillel school, so that...
...construction and even domestic car sales are still weak. Above all, the 9% unemployment rate shows no signs of declining, despite government measures to encourage temporary foreign workers to return home, early-retirement schemes and vocational-training programs. For Giersch, the root cause of the problem is an excessively rigid labor system that discourages workers from accepting job or salary changes. Proposals to alter this situation, he adds, meet resistance from both unions and government. Said Giersch: "Flexibility is polemically denounced as Americanization or a return to 19th century capitalism with the ugly face of exploitation...
...once but several times from his hospital room the President had talked wistfully about "going home." Over the years, Presidents have had any number of unkind observations about the rigid environs of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, about how it was like living over the store. But home it is now to Reagan. He credits most of this feeling to the nesting instinct of his wife Nancy...
...failure of the Prince and his friends to create a believable feminine identity simply by wearing women’s clothes (in contrast to the convincing disguise they provide for men in Shakespearean comedies) reveals the play’s agenda to express gender as rigid and biologically-determined. The fact that the eunuchs can dress monochromatically like women demonstrates that they have lost their biologically male trait...