Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stood. Yitzhak Rabin's first days as Israel's Prime Minister have put Arabs and Palestinians in a similar bind. He has yanked open the door to serious negotiations against which they had been pushing, only to find them in a tangled heap on the floor, their muscles stiff and unprepared for a vigorous pas de deux...
...tail pipes; the rest comes mainly from the smokestacks of factories and oil refineries. The new regulations could reduce smog-producing emissions and carbon monoxide pollution from vehicles by 30% in many cities. But repairs to pass the test could cost drivers from $25 to $450, a stiff increase from the present average of $50 to $75. (Anyone whose car still can't make the grade even after an outlay of $450 will get a waiver until the next required test.) Maybe that kind of expense would be less painful if industry were also paying its share...
...Gore's the stiff...
...year, clozapine still looms beyond the reach of most who need it. The stiff price has discouraged many state institutions and agencies, which are responsible for the care of the vast majority of American schizophrenia patients. While a few states have embraced the drug -- Minnesota, for example, has provided clozapine to 1,000 of its 4,300 eligible patients -- most have not made that commitment. California, for instance, with 60,000 potentially eligible patients, has treated only 1,300. Veterans hospitals, which treat as many as 9,000 eligible schizophrenia patients annually, have given clozapine to only...
...rare undergraduate who truly cares about the powers that run this colossus of higher education. Stiff-necked bureaucratic types, after all, have little to say about whether you have a keg party in the Yard or dump you roommate into a "psycho-single." (That's left to the stiff-necked proctors and tutors...