Word: stiff
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Last week Kentucky's legislature came to the rescue of the mountaineers. By an overwhelming vote, it adopted a law placing stiff controls on the strip miners. The law becomes effective in June, requires the companies to dump stripped soil in places where it cannot slide down exposed mountainsides. After the coal has been extracted, the companies must refill their gouges in the earth, terrace and replant their access cuts and, under certain conditions, regrade the slope to its original contour. Kentucky thereby became the seventh state to impose similar controls on strip coal mining. The others: West Virginia...
...survived such pressures comfortably. Though the government already skims 67% off the oil income, the biggest producer, Jersey Standard's Creole subsidiary, in 1964 netted a phenomenal $228 million, and the second biggest, Royal/Dutch Shell's subsidiary, earned $105 million. The current demands, however, seem a bit stiff even for Creole and Shell. Early this month the government hit them with back-tax claims totaling $113 million for the years 1958 through 1960 on the questionable ground that they had then sold oil too cheaply-and thus had somehow done Venezuela out of its fair return. More important...
...father into the Senate, announced his candidacy for Congress from Ohio's First District. Taft had been Ohio's U.S. Representative-at-large before his defeat in the Democratic landslide, has since been practicing law in Cincinnati. The First District is traditionally Republican, but Taft faces a stiff fight from an energetic Democratic freshman incumbent, John Gilligan, 44, who was swept in by the same Democratic tide that beat Taft...
...supply the federation's 11 million customers, and since the breakup Malaysia has erected high tariff walls against Singapore-made goods. Result: most factories have cut production drastically, are searching for overseas markets to take up the slack. They are plagued by strike-prone unions, face increasingly stiff competition from aggressive and more experienced manufacturers in Hong Kong, Japan and Formosa...
...other hand, the Henry Fellowship's approach to your life and works is about as stiff as the paper on which the form is printed--no vague statements for them. While the Henry has a standard question about college activities and honors, it also includes a separate question about high school activities and interests. (Of course, the Henry also differs from most application in that it inquires about your preparatory--not secondary--school.) Perhaps they want to see if it's been all downhill after you made Arista. But if you've been secretly nursing your pride in your...