Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorable contractual terms." In other words, to come closer to Lockheed's $15 million offer, McDonnell Douglas had cut down its price per plane by almost $1,000,000-to $155 million, including engines. And the cut now applies to the American order as well. That kind of stiff price competition means bargains for the airlines; it also means that both airframe companies will have to scramble for volume to make money out of their new planes...
McCurdy said the two-mile would be one of the meet's closest races. Harvard's Doug Hardin and Tim McLoone will encounter stiff challenges from M.I.T.'s Ben Wilson and B.U.'s Peter Hoss...
Harvard's time of 6:13.3 did not set a course record. There was a stiff head wind quartering off the port...
...height of the gold crisis. Sobered by the threat to the dollar, Congress seemed to be less hostile to the notion of raising taxes in an election year; the Senate went so far as to attach a 10% income-tax surcharge to another revenue measure-together with a stiff $6 billion cut in the federal budget...
...weather was cold, the wind was stiff, and Dorwart was both. He allowed a hit and walked three batters before he found anything resembling control. With one run in and the bases still loaded, the tall Kentuckian finally looked as if he had found some of his stuff. He got, M.I.T.'s Jim Cole to hit an easy double-play grounder. Second baseman Phil Smith took the throw from short-stop Jeff Grate for the first out, but threw the ball far over first baseman Joe Ignaclo's head. Two runs scored on the error and the M.I.T. lead...