Word: stiffening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppliers. While developing software for the Personal Computer, workers at Peachtree Software in Atlanta began to refer to the company by another three initials, KGB, after IBM ordered the installation of pa per shredders and locked security areas. Microsoft, which also developed software programs for the PC, had to stiffen its procedures after IBM conducted an unannounced inspection and discovered that part of the then secret computer had been temporarily left unguarded...
...Pretoria bombing was certain to stiffen white opposition to sharing power. Some South Africans even suspected that the attack might have been the work of an extreme right-wing group intent on sabotaging Prime Minister P.W. Botha's efforts to introduce constitutional reforms that would give limited voting rights to Asians and coloreds. Malan warned the nation to be on guard for more urban violence. Said he: "War does not start and finish at the country's borders...
...sometimes the music is a weapon, and sometimes it is a trap. For centuries, Celts have given themselves battlefield noise and nerve with bagpipes, making the "our song" of the regiment, the tribe, stirring up the blood. The pipes have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...
...Francisco Federal Reserve Bank apparently helped stiffen the resolve of the lenders, many of whom have substantial loan problems of their own. Moreover, the New York Federal Reserve branch telephoned banks in its region that were considering joining the lending syndicate to tell them that their participation would be welcomed...
...harsh news of British losses at sea only seemed further to stiffen the resolve of Prime Minister Thatcher. Aides described her as being completely confident of her position, completely in command of herself. The personal traits that have made her so many political enemies?her combative nature, her refusal to bend to indecision or doubt?had singularly suited her to fulfilling the role of a wartime Prime Minister. General Galtieri may look haggard and Foreign Secretary Pym troubled, but Thatcher, close up, showed not a bit of strain. Her firm, clear voice ringing through the House of Commons, she defended...