Word: stiff
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...notches in both the Eastern and national rankings, should ensure a consistently strong outing today, as the Crimson needs to stay on top in the Ivy race in order to secure an NCAA bid later this season, and must not pass up this golden opportunity in its otherwise stiff schedule...
Murphy said a large part of the loss in sales was in the Coop's music department, which has faced stiff competition from Square newcomers HMV and Tower Records. Murphy said the Coop has begun a new advertising campaign to win more student business. and he added that he hoped to beat his music competition with lower prices...
...earlier family ideal think of Ozzie and Harriet or Leave It to Beaver or The Donna Reed Show. They may even think that family values are something enacted in black and white -- the home returned to after school, the milk and cookies, a rustling of Mother in full stiff skirts. Americans almost never cite books as aide-memoire or illustrations of family values, perhaps because the TV sitcoms of American childhoods tended toward the sunny, whereas the novelists (think of John O'Hara, Philip Roth, John Cheever), if read at all, made their money by prying open American private lives...
...survived snags over textiles, avocados and chickens and still faces a stiff test in Congress. After 14 months of almost nonstop and frequently contentious haggling, negotiators for the U.S., Canada and Mexico were poised to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would bind 363 million consumers into the world's largest trading zone with a combined gross domestic product of more than $6 trillion...
...offer "reasonable accommodations" -- things like a ramp for a wheelchair or a sound amplifier on a phone -- to people with disabilities. The fuzziness of that language has prompted many of the 264,000 employers covered by the act to seek advice about their new obligations, especially since they face stiff financial penalties if they violate its provisions. Says Bobby Silverstein of the Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy: "Companies are sending human- resources employees to seminars and sensitivity training, reading manuals and meeting with disabilities-rights advocates...