The most ossified of all the public services is undergoing the biggest shake-up in its history.
The UK system had simply not become "ossified" in the way US politics had.
Most blame, however, belongs not to any one person but to California's system of governance, which has ossified for decades.
For the class warriors of the left, fox-hunting is wrong because the structure of the hunt reflects ossified social hierarchies.
Yet it also provides an important way to shake up ossified economies.
Management becomes ossified in their roles and employees understand that their role is not to think but to do as they are told.
By the 1980s the Democrats were ossified: bereft of ideas, controlled by out-of-touch barons in Congress, and browbeaten by a popular Republican president.
It is not something that fits with the giant corporate mentality that tends to grow more and more restrictive and ossified as companies increase in size.
America seemed left behind, ossified, as other parts of the Western world, which generally share America's culture and values, revised their views and rules on social issues.
One target for the Republicans' Ms Lingle is the state's ossified schools: its pupils come 39th out of the country's 50 states in reading, 35th in maths.
In much of Europe, meantime, elections are turning on economic unhappiness, although the specific targets seem to be an abundance of migrants and an ossified and unfaithful establishment.
In particular, the rise of utility-scale, centralized renewable energy and the associated infrastructure they will require are propagating an ossified, state-oriented system for providing and paying for electric service.
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The BOJ, seeking instead to get long-promised reforms in the ossified post-war workings of Japan Inc. and its regulators, is fighting for time, though its governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, now has only until April in his term.
For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.
Private and public budgets are busting to keep up with expenses driven by such factors as an ossified system of tenure-driven faculty appointments, outrageous research obligations even in the humanities and social sciences and gilded accommodations for the (ever longer) nesting students.
Black also needs to see as her mission the effort to expand the number of charter schools, and to do whatever she can to develop any and all alternatives to a system that is far too large and ossified for its own good.
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Henry Ford may have been, in his earliest years, when he rode his excitement and clarity of vision about the automobile to give America the Model T and a new universe, but then Ford ran out of ideas and ossified and lost all his creativity.
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