Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proposed "a comprehensive revision of existing conflict-of-interest statutes." Under it, present law would be eased for consultants who work only part time for the Government. But it would also be toughened to provide stiff penalties for officials who try to wangle favors for friends or associates. Other key points: 1) members of federal regulatory agencies would be forbidden to confer privately with persons involved in cases that are to be decided only on the records of formal hearings; 2) Government officials would be prohibited from "switching sides" and joining a private company on cases that they had handled...
...unwieldy 21-member Board of Higher Education. Everett must mollify the presidents of seven nominally independent colleges. While finding ways to accept more students, especially from New York's submerged Negro and Puerto Rican population, he must maintain City's traditional standards. Withal, he must develop stiff doctoral programs and research that match the best in the U.S. He took the thankless job, says Everett, "because I would have always wondered why if I hadn't. It's the most interesting higher education job in the country...
...between for Goldfine, Kennedy sent an aide flying to Boston to hear out the ailing, aged (70) industrialist. Since then, Goldfine has made at least one trip to the Justice Department. The word in Washington: facing tax-evasion charges, Goldfine hopes to sing his way out of a stiff sentence, is telling of previously undisclosed gifts to high Government officials...
...Peberdy reassuringly hastened to add that in the selection of officer candidates "the cut of a man's mustache could of course never be of influence." But just to be on the safe side, would-be subalterns with toothbrush mustaches might do well to shave-or keep a stiff upper...
...potbellied male whose nude body has the color of death and whose face is covered with purple squiggles suggesting decay. Even Strombotne's self-portrait-an elongated figure with beard and dark glasses-seems tortured. The wrists are crossed as if waiting to be manacled; the stance is stiff and tense. "This," says Strombotne, "represents the tension that is in me and the strain that flows through every...