Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...International Telephone & Telegraph has encountered stiff Justice Department opposition to its proposed merger with American Broadcasting Co. But that has failed to dampen ITT's ardor for picking up other corporations. Its latest morsel: Rayonier Inc., a $171 million-a-year manufacturer of pulp products. The communications giant also has a line out in hopes of acquiring Western Power & Gas Co., a public utility operating in 13 states from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. - General Telephone & Electronics Corp., the nation's largest independent telephone system, stood to get even larger by agreeing to a $145 million stock...
Despite this, by reducing tariffs 50 per cent on some imports, the U.S. negotiating team has incurred the protests of powerful industries which feel the lower tariffs will bring disastrously stiff competition. The strongest reaction to the Round has come from the thriving chemical industry. At the negotiations, the American team made a tentative agreement, subject to approval of Congress, to eliminate the American Selling Price (ASP) method of evaluating certain chemicals (mostly dyes and pigments). The chemical industry considers this a life-and-death matter and is feverishly lobbying to defeat the legislation to repeal...
...unfortunate thing about it all is that Mr. Kirstein, who staged the Loeb production himself, has played up his weaknesses by a kind of epileptic direction. The small cast goes through its paces in a formal, costumed, slightly stiff historical drama way, and there's a fit: John Braden's lights and set start playing discotheque games and some refugees from a mine troupe start fooling around on the White House lawn, carrying ghosts on poles and setting off sparklers. Then these people pack up and we're back to chamber drama...
Since capturing and annexing the Old City, Israel has gone out of its way to preserve the sanctity of the Christian, Jewish and Moslem shrines alike. The Knesset has passed laws reaffirming the existing custodial agreements on the shrines and decreeing stiff prison terms for anyone caught desecrating sacred sites. The government has even posted guards at them...
...customers find that a pretty pilot makes those stiff fares easier to swallow, Air Inter presumably will not mind. But Rear Admiral Paul Hebrard, a retired naval aviator who is Air Inter's chairman, insists that Mlle. Dubut is aboard only because the airline has now outgrown its supply of males. "Her record was faultless. There was no reason not to hire her," he says. Not content to leave well enough alone, the admiral makes the ridiculous claim: "She must also be considered not as a girl...