This seems to have led him to divide almost everybody into friends and foes, and to draw rigid lines between good and evil in virtually all matters, commercial as well as moral.

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"We should toss away old and rigid attitudes that are not good for fixing the mental knots and rallying people's minds", the editorial noted.

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You had to wear this very strange uniform and obey all the rules, and although they fed the children well and gave them a good education, they were so rigid and so strict!

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Try to find one or two good recipients, or create some kind of rigid system for moving stuff along quickly.

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He has also proved himself a good manager, despite inheriting a bloated city government with rigid civil-service laws and 48 different unions.

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