Word: rigidness
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...package to get a Blair seal of approval this week, to help him sell it at home. But is another report good for anything more than p.r.? "On economic reform, France and Germany are laggards, not the avant garde," says Grant. Their state sectors are bloated and labor markets rigid; France protects its energy sector from foreign competition; Germany subsidizes coal production. On many crucial economic questions, like the strong euro, the leaders are irrelevant. Blair, whose economy is healthiest, is convinced international endorsement will help his colleagues sell reform at home - but that sounds a bit unrealistic since Chirac...
...hear much talk on the network talk shows these days-not much real conversation to broaden the mind or upset the rigid format. In TV's robust youth it was different, in large part because of JACK PAAR, who died last week in Greenwich, Conn...
Starting the second half with a rigid press that generated seven of Lafayette’s 33 turnovers in under five minutes, Harvard netted several easy baskets to stretch a four-point halftime lead into a 15-point advantage just 4:24 later. During that stretch, Peljto scored nine points—six on layups—driving a 16-2 Crimson run that sent the Leopards reeling...
...this case, a large portion of the Sunni minority—to recant their involvement with the regime and rejoin civil society. Such is the system that has allowed the multitude of ethnicities in South Africa—from Boers, the group that provided apartheid’s rigid backbone, to those whom they routinely victimized—to function again in one of Africa’s most effective democracies...
...best aspects of the IOP is that, with its large endowment and top-notch faculty, it can provide adequate resources for projects without a rigid, complicated or restrictive policy. The IOP can afford to cover the costs of trips like the one to Miami, and with seasoned politicians leading groups of motivated students, it can be confident that these trips will have substantial educational value...