Word: rigidness
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...Fenstermacher and PSLM leaders claim that the political group had an inordinate amount of influence over the No Layoffs Campaign. Fenstermacher says the group let the “rigid ideology” of the Socialist Alternative limit their potential accomplishments...
...people who are rigid, the people who think that because it’s the way they’ve always done it, it’s got to be right—this kind of stuff stops progress dead in its tracks,” he said. “And then we either have to go around it or through...
...Discipline seemed rigid enough last week, as Guo spent a Wednesday afternoon grimly slicing through the water to prepare for an upcoming meet in Shanghai. She plunged into the pool over and over, surfacing only to hear terse criticism from her usually upbeat coach. A few meters from where Guo was practicing, six-year-old girls from the city tossed themselves off the vertiginous diving platform, their tiny bodies tumbling through the air at up to 60 km/h. The girls were all wearing plain, baggy, black swimsuits, and some looked longingly at their famous compatriot in her sleek, purple suit...
...courses do not merely emphasize the ambiguous yet ubiquitous “approaches to knowledge” embodied in the Core, but rather introduce students to the bodies of knowledge and texts that the College deems most important. This is not to say that the College should approach a rigid “Great Books” curriculum resembling Columbia’s Core, but rather that the program should offer exposure to the different terrains of thought that have landscaped our world—and will likely continue to do so in the future. As the HCCR report notes...
...September 2002, "I don't like to work too hard or take decisions. You do that." It was a playful way of signaling that he intended to delegate operating management to his subordinates, and it marked a dramatic change for a company whose former leader, Percy Barnevik, imposed a rigid top-down culture...