Word: stiff
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Native Israelis are torn between their joy in welcoming so many Jews to the country they consider their rightful home and the high cost that the influx is exacting. Longtime residents face stiff tax hikes, rent increases and competition for jobs. The new arrivals are finding themselves in lines almost as long as the ones back in the U.S.S.R. to obtain services from an overwhelmed bureaucracy. Many of the immigrants are educated far beyond the means of Israel's cramped economy to employ them, and face an uphill challenge to find suitable jobs -- or any jobs...
...minutes later. He did answer Harvard's best second-half rally by swishing two straight off-balance three-pointers. And he did throw down that awe-inspiring take-off-from-the-foul-line-and-fly reverse dunk that left the arena in an uproar. But those were lucky. The stiff would have been shut out if Harvard hadn't been...uh... double-teaming down low, where Coleman was held to...uh...18 points on 9-of-13 shooting...
Sleaziest Election Campaign When Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina faced a stiff challenge from black Democrat Harvey Gantt, he bashed gays, then feminists, linking Gantt to their causes. Finally, he turned to race baiting, airing a TV spot that depicted white workers' frustration at racial quotas. Helms...
...powerful 1992 campaign issue from the resentment of white voters toward programs that seem to benefit minorities unfairly. The main dealer of that racial card was William Bennett, an articulate critic of affirmative-action schemes and Bush's choice to be the new Republican Party chairman. But after a stiff internal debate, the Administration put that strategy on hold. Then Bennett astonished Washington last week with word that he would not become G.O.P. chief after all, ostensibly because of competing professional commitments. Compounding the confusion, the White House professed surprise when a mid-level Education Department official ruled that most...
...Saddam runs true to type, he may see Bush's diplomatic overture as further proof that the coalition has neither the resolution nor the stamina to stay the course against him. If so, he will stiff James Baker as he has other emissaries -- and war will be inevitable...