Word: stiffener
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...Arthur Okun, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, notes that the rate of wage increases has jumped more than a full point in a year, to 8.3%. He contends that the Administration must set an example-such as holding firm on wage increases for federal employees-that will stiffen the spines of business chiefs to resist inflationary wage demands...
...toward a peace that would ignore or bypass Palestinian interests. In fact, the attack will make any peace at all more difficult. Certainly, it will reinforce Israel's resistance to any kind of Palestinian state on its borders, make the Israelis distrust all Arabs more than ever, and stiffen Begin's stance toward making further Israeli concessions in any peace talks. The attack seemed to be the opening salvo of a new policy by Palestinian leaders, launched in Tripoli last December at the Arab states' rejectionist summit, to carry to Israel's soil the war against...
...constructive attitude toward his or her environment, or the ability to adapt to ambiguous cultural situations might be considered important in taking stock of the minority applicant--as well as developing accurate means of academic evaluation. Even-handed admissions criteria would apply these criteria across the boards and stiffen up the admissions process for the majority student as well...
...refusal of the Christian Democrats to yield on increased Communist participation prompted the Communists in turn to stiffen their own stance. Declared one party policymaker testily: "For 30 years all the governments in this country have been based on the prejudice that the Communist Party is somehow a B-league party capable of everything except governing. But the galloping crisis now demonstrates that still another government based on that prejudice would be insufficient, to say the least...
...attack came late in the game. The Senate was moving toward approval of a package far more favorable to the hard-lobbying oil and natural gas industry than that passed by the House, which accepted most of Carter's proposals. The new White House offensive was timed to stiffen the House and apply heavy pressure on the Senate when a conference committee from both chambers sits down this week to begin trying to resolve the sharp conflicts in their bills...