The aim is to replace rigid rules issued by out-of-touch politicians with fluid and personalized feedback loops generated by gadget-wielding customers.
Mr. Franks is also uncomfortably rigid on some issues, especially abortion rights.
The big public company has rigid standards, compliance issues and little patience for making exceptions for a relatively small subsidiary.
But the show's festive gaiety and liberal spirit also become a way of masking the big issues: rigid parental opposition to Jess's ambitions melt away as quickly as the snobbery of a Sikh family who don't want their son to marry Jess's lower-middle-class sister.
The goal of the different reforms is to create tools, which would enable public medical institutions to respond to several troublesome issues: rigid operating procedures and complex organizational arrangements of public hospitals, "de-responsibilization" of decision makers, competition with private institutions.
Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who supported Fannie Mae almost to its collapse, has called for Mr. DeMarco's resignation because he is "too rigid" on the issue.
Determinate tomato plants are stubbier, with somewhat rigid stalks that issue all their fruit at once, which could weigh down and break the stems if hanging upside down.
Gent isn't rigid on the issue of control; the deal with Bell Atlantic showed that.
The demographics of the country are rapidly changing, young people are becoming increasingly liberal on social issues, and rigid, dogmatic religious stricture is loosening its grip on the throat of our culture.
The rigid stance on border issues today — India with Pakistan over Kashmir, for example, and China with Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, as well as tensions over Taiwan — are seen as the result of colonial meddling.
