Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday meeting. You want your tax service to put the fear of God into you, to be firm but fair, and for there to be Serious and Severe Consequences if you don't comply with the full extent of the tax law. You want an agent that is a stern and jealous bureaucrat. Instead, what you get is a smiling guy wearing a blue and yellow button that says "At the IRS we work...
With a sarcastically stern face, Gore shifted quickly from routine recognitions of Harvard faculty members to a litany of facetious, self-effacing comments before his audience and hosts, including staff from the Institute of Politics...
...joysticks as the vessel approached. Lazutkin would be behind him, peering out a nearby window to call out the spacecraft's coordinates. Foale would be dispatched to the station's most distant module, the Kvant, where the unmanned ship would actually dock. Shining a laser range finder out the stern porthole, he would measure Progress's distance and report it through a headset to Tsibliyev. If everything went well, Foale would be the first to feel the slight bump as the eight-ton, 23-ft. ship barely kissed the far larger...
...consolidated its hold over two-thirds of the country but is still fighting to extend its harsh rule over the entire nation. In the past year, the women of Afghanistan have endured extraordinary hardship, and last week's incident proved that the Taliban has no intention of easing the stern commandments that have virtually locked women away in a modern purdah...
...sending the message of "as long as I don't see it, it's all right." Leaving inexperienced first-years to figure out their own limits without guidance leaves them in the kind of ignorance that cost Scott Krueger his life. Proctors and tutors should either give a stern warning about the risks of drinking, in terms of both physical health and administrative punishment, or-and this might be the more effective approach-they should advise students on how to drink safely. Though this might be seen as running counter to the College's stance against underage drinking...