Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There will be some tough meets for Murphy this year. Cornell and Princeton always provide stiff competition. Yet up there on the three-meter board, even against Princeton and Cornell. Bill Murphy will be competing against himself. That's why he will win. That's what it's like to be the champion...
Though he sought a stiff curtailment of Medicaid payments, the new budget, if approved, will require a 20% surcharge on state income taxes, a 10-a-gallon rise in gasoline taxes, a 100-a-fifth increase in liquor levies, a rise of up to 50% in corporation and utilities taxes, and at least five other significant levies. Together, the new taxes must raise $494 million above last year's revenues. Said Democrat Anthony Travia...
...demographic consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only a few weeks' supply but take them anyway, in the mistaken belief than an ounce of prevention is better...
...stopped publishing than three interim papers sprang up, ready to reap lush profits. Interestingly enough, the Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire all 730 of their out-of-work members...
...best foundations are acutely conscious of their public image and obligations, and sensitive to the need for periodic introspection if they are to preserve their function as the implement of vital change. Philanthropic institutions can degenerate into bureaucracies, stiff with habit and overloaded with deadwood; it is difficult, for instance, to fire a philanthropist for backing a poor horse. Soon after taking over the presidency of the Ford Foundation in 1966, McGeorge Bundy declared his conviction that periodic personnel turnover at the disbursement level was probably a good foundation practice...