Word: stiffening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years since I had a decent car. I love this truck"--as he spoke, he was driving his Ford pickup around his 200-acre ranch outside Marshall, Texas--"but it's a truck. I got rid of the Mercedes, the Rolls-Royce, all that stuff, because it made people stiffen up. Like they wanted to compete. They're more relaxed when I don't have a good car. But I needed a car, an American car, and I needed a big car because I'm a big man. But now I'm embarrassed to be seen in it. Maybe...
...ears of police. Local spending on police increased by an impressive 65% between 1978 and 1983, according to one survey of some 600 U.S. cities. Despite some resistance to the huge costs, fully 35 states have embarked on prison-expansion programs. State legislatures are enacting laws to limit parole, stiffen sentences and provide new rights for the long-neglected victims of the senseless violence in urban America...
With any luck at all the discovery of this booklet should stiffen congressional resolve to resist more funds for the contras. But then what is to be done with the remaining books? One good possibility would be to distribute it free of charge to the rebels in El Salvador on the off chance they might follow some of the suggestions. Considering the luck the contras have had and the usual quality of CIA advice, the rebels will roll over and die within a month...
...possibilities are as volatile as the chemicals. As landfills close and air-pollution rules stiffen, the U.S. continues to produce some 275 million metric tons of poisonous wastes each year, and millions of metric tons still await disposal. Concerned citizens across the nation, although they agree that hazardous materials should be disposed of somewhere, answer Ruckelshaus' reasoning with the acronym NIMBY: Not in My Backyard...
...make the cop tougher, the SEC is asking Congress to stiffen the penalties for illegal insider trading. Those convicted in civil cases now receive wrist-slap sanctions that merely bar them from further misuse of information and make them relinquish their profits. A House-passed version of the SEC measure would impose fines of up to three times the gains made from illicit transactions...