Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is hoping to get the signature of the Shah of Iran on a contract to buy a JetStar corporate jetliner. Indonesia's President Sukarno already owns one. So does Millionaire Harold S. Vanderbilt of Palm Beach and New York. But executive jets are running into stiff sales resistance from the very group for which they were intended: corporate executives. The difficulty is not salesmanship (a demonstration ride can be arranged at the drop of a hat) or a lack of a choice. Eleven planemakers, including four in the U.S., have corporate jets either already...
...cars sold by 1970. The profitable business of leasing has already attracted some operators who are short on financing and ethical standards, forcing legitimate firms in car-happy Los Angeles to set up their own advertising code. Competition among leasers has become so stiff that some companies make only about $6 a year per car; whether they show a profit at all frequently depends on what they can get for their autos on the used-car market after the lease has run out. And just as the individual customer is out of place in car leasing, so is the entrepreneur...
Leinsdorf uses no baton and conducts with a stiff and angular style. His dress coat reaches nearly to his ankles, and from the audience he looks like an aging seaman sending semaphore signals to some distant ship. The Boston has the longest season of all (50 weeks), including Tanglewood in the summer and-for the 92 members willing to play Viennese waltzes and champagne music-a stint with Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops...
Under the Callahan plan eight acres of the Charles River would be filled in to make room for the Turnpike Extension. Callahan has met stiff opposition from Cambridge groups which fear that Magazine Beach, a riverfront recreational area near MIT will be submerged to compensate for the fill-in on the opposite bank...
...garage mechanics-men who find commercial beer too extravagant for their budgets. The new duty would make home brew twice as costly as the regular commercial stuff. Quickly forming a pressure group grandly named the Amateur Brewers & Vintners Association, some 300 do-it-yourself braumeisters fired off a stiff protest to Welensky, pointing out that home brewing "has taken place in the United Kingdom for centuries, and as the British emigrated to the colonies, this tradition has been accepted as the birthright of the ordinary man by every government of the Commonwealth...