Most economists think these are all terrible ideas: they would make the economy rigid just when it needs to be flexible.
Simon Kneen, creative director of Banana Republic, says the retailer also used a lighter fusable, or adhesive, in the collars to make them less rigid, trying to achieve collar "magic, " Mr. Kneen says.
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Awkward though this is, e-mail's rigid protocols make it hard to innovate in the in-box.
There is thus a risk that price stability may make relative wages even more rigid.
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However, EIS President Susan Quinn said it was important not to make the entry system too rigid.
These attacks expose the brittleness that comes from building systems that are too rigid, that make too many unchecked trust assumptions.
Toyota has combined polypropylene and rubber at the nanometer scale to make a bumper that is as rigid as the usual 4-millimeter bumper but almost 60% thinner.
Toyota has combined polypropylene and rubber at the nanometer scale to make a bumper that is as rigid as the usual 4-millimeter one but almost 60% thinner.
Curtains need to be covered in flame retardant to prevent fire spread, for example, and certain other materials have chemicals added to them in order to make them more flexible, more rigid, or more rugged.
Bettman insists that the league needs to run under a more rigid salary cap, and make sure there are no signing bonuses or back-loaded contracts to player salaries.
This means there is now no hope of the government embarking on the reforms that are so badly needed to change India's rigid labour laws, which make it virtually impossible to sack workers or close uneconomic factories.
And the whole idea of the sequester was to make sure that both sides felt obligated to move off rigid positions and do what was required to help the country.
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Problems have included price controls, which prevent below-cost selling, rigid labour laws and tough zoning regulations, which make it extremely difficult to build big stores.
The rigid corporate culture discourages companies from using their networks to make communication easy.
So when designing that data center with powerful but rigid, scale-up systems, the tendency is to make sure it never comes up short.
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States have complained, of course, that the law is too rigid, that it does not take into account the progress that kids make over time, not just year to year.
The PC doesn't make any noise as you slide it up and and down, and the rig is rigid enough that you can push the display down using one hand.
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