Word: firmer
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...fairly routine, on-the-run-pursued-by-nasties page turner. But it stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for an entire year, something accomplished by nothing but Dr. Seuss books and the kind of self-help manual that advises you to Hate Your Way to a Firmer, More Youthful Figure. The explanation -- to the extent that there can be one (after a certain uncritical mass is reached, a best seller best-sells because it is a best seller)--is that the villains were the partners of a rich, greedy, overbearing, dishonest law firm. In loving detail...
...front-runner, Tsongas had the most to lose in the debate. He chose to open by lashing out at Bush, a tactic he maintained throughout the evening. The candidate, who has billed himself as pro-business though others have called him economically conservative, also took a firmer stand on trade policy...
After the '80s, investment bankers rebuild on firmer ground...
...expert at M.I.T. "It was the tired old nomenklatura, the party figures in the army." In his first act as defense minister, Shaposhnikov resigned from the party and, on the basis of a decree issued by Yeltsin, ordered its cells banished from the barracks. The generals must also accept firmer control from the Supreme Soviet, whose members have shown growing interest in the defense budget and procurement...
...list of golfers who have risen from obscurity to win major contests only to return to a comfortable and lucrative mediocrity. Crooked Stick, with its long fairways and soft greens, may have been the perfect course for Daly. The question remains as to how he will fare on narrower, firmer fairways where power can make a bad situation disastrous. Can he, in short, become a superstar...