Word: rigorousity
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It ripples across the roughest terrain like a huge, double-jointed caterpillar. It can cling to 60° slopes, climb over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by...
The Meillands make a fetish of rigorous testing, and take ten years or more to create a new variety of rose. The seeds of cross-pollinated blooms are culled and planted and the seedlings put down in the greenhouses-100,000 at a time. Every morning the young boss walks...
Ted Washburn, whose rigorous training programs and disciplined coaching have turned out consistently winning freshmen crews for Harvard in the past four years, has a substantially lighter and less experienced squad to work with this spring.
Hysterical Herons. "The trouble with most of today's conductors," says Swarowsky, "is that they are not sure of style. A Dürer is not a Rembrandt; a Bruckner symphony is not a Wagner opera. Each style needs its own realization." To sharpen his students' sense of...
Pleading for "the most rigorous restraint," Johnson asked business and the unions to slow the wage-price cycle. Wage settlements, he said, must be reduced voluntarily from last year's 5.5% average. Where possible, extra costs must not be passed to consumers. On the international side, he urged approval...