Word: stiff
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...fines, compared with campus precedents, are stiff. Stanford will pay close to $1 million for violations of California hazardous waste disposal laws. Yale, for similar violations, agreed...
...LOVE TO POLKA Album beats stiff competition to cop seventh Best Polka win for the innovative Jimmy Sturr...
...rosy in East Asian Studies. Students say the requirements are relatively stiff...
...TIME'S Douglas Waller says the case "will not produce the same stir as the Ames case. Whatever Lipka gave the Soviets is now long out of date." This is not likely to encourage leniency on the part of the U.S. Government, Waller notes. "Lipka could get a fairly stiff sentence. Arrested spies are likely to plead guilty to avoid public trials which make secret methodologies and sources a matter of public record...
...turn of political events--the 24 hours Smolan chose to document were anything but a celebration. They fell on the very day last week that President Clinton signed a telecommunications bill, which contains easily the most reviled piece of legislation in cyberspace, the Communications Decency Act. The law imposes stiff penalties for posting or transmitting "indecent" material online--a provision that strips from online communications the First Amendment guarantees that protect the written and spoken word...