Mr. Corzine says his plan emphasizes the needs of individual students, not the rigid spend-by-the-numbers plans of the past.
It is in these places we find the over-complex resource allocation systems; burdensome support planning approaches; rigid rules on spend; social workers not trusted to make judgments; people left without information, advice and advocacy.
That isn't, strictly speaking, how Lost in Showbiz remembers pregnancy – its overriding recollection is of nine months spent rigid with terror at its wife's hormonally driven mood swings, which meant that the simplest of queries ("Is this Location Location Location a repeat?") could somehow, bafflingly, lead to a night spent sleeping on the sofa.
A sleepless night spent rigid on the frozen ground inside the lávvu is instantly forgotten as dawn brings a group of fearless reindeer snuffling up to the tents, curious and hungry.
Yes, but that's so rigid that I spent my whole life trying to fuck it up.
But this is not just a story about profligate spending and rigid monetary policy.
A third initiative tries to control state spending by a rigid formula, which is usually a mistake.
PARIS — Two years ago, Europe was growing more rapidly than the United States, and the Old Continent finally seemed prepared to tackle longstanding economic challenges like rigid labor markets, runaway government spending and a rapidly aging population.
The lesson of the euro crisis, they say, is that to keep the pound, an independent Scotland would need to adhere to rigid directives on taxation and spending, and to establish with the remainder of Britain joint structures like a banking union.
