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This new research shows just how important the bill is for drinking and that, despite its rigid outward appearance, it is remarkably flexible.

In order to preserve the rigid status quo, the clan’s patriarch will do everything he can to keep the winds of change from invading his household and affecting his wife and daughters.

“We reject any proposals that impose undue burden on industries,” Saudi Arabia said in its opening statement Monday, arguing for “recycling solutions rather than imposing rigid and exclusionary policies.”

He was very rigid with scheduling — go to work, come home, have dinner with my mother without the kids, and go to the boat on the weekend.

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For example, they adjust the stiffness of their muscles when they walk on a more rigid surface.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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