Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson photographer, ducking their heads, nodding in silent apology and moving on down the street. All around swirl the sounds of the Square, from the hawks of the Square Deal man to the laughter of the kids in the pit by the T-stop. Gordon's silence and stiff posture are strangely out of place in this acre of motion and life. He fixes his steady, unchanging expression on the lens of the camera, and slightly bends his lips, trying to comply with the photographer's simple request. Despite the smile, however, he stands upright, hands awkwardly at his sides...
Heading into this weekend's tournament at Brown, the women's water polo team felt confident that it could handle its competition. While the Metro-Boston club team has always posed a stiff challenge, the other schools Harvard faced--Princeton, M.I.T. and Brown--have rarely fielded strong teams...
...Chinese government cracked down on such trafficking in 1989, when it passed new wildlife-protection laws prohibiting hunting and trading of endangered animals, with stiff penalties for violators. Last year two panda traders were executed. But even the threat of capital punishment has failed to slow the poachers. Since the laws were enacted, more than 2,000 illegal killings have been reported, and enforcement of the measures is lax. "The government is interested in protection, but it has too many other things to take care of," explains one exasperated Chinese conservationist. Says the WWF investigator: "There is little effective control...
...press secretary, James Brady, who was shot in Hinckley's attack and left paralyzed by his wounds. It is designed to give police enough time to determine if gun buyers have a criminal record. Advocates say Reagan's conversion ensures that the bill will be enacted this year, despite stiff opposition from the powerful pro-gun lobby. President Bush quickly indicated that he might sign the bill if Congress is willing to accept his revisions to the criminal code...
...democracy, the coup leaders quickly formed a 17-man National Reconciliation Council headed by Lieut. Colonel Amadou Toumani Toure, 43, commander of the parachute forces. The council has announced plans to form a 25-member interim administration, which will hold multiparty elections by 1992. But democracy still faces a stiff challenge in this drought-prone nation of 8 million, one of the world's poorest countries. While the coup brought the chance of greater freedom, it also continued the pattern of violent overthrows plaguing the continent...