Word: stiffens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, which analyzed 500,000 accidents in Ohio from January 1982 to June 1983, suggested that motorists facing severe punishment for drunk driving might be strongly inclined to cut out, especially if the penalty for fleeing the accident is scarcely harsher than that for causing it. One possible remedy: stiffen the laws against hit-and-run driving...
...University takes "drug-selling, in particular, very seriously...We're not going to exaggerate the problem like Secretary Bennett," he added. But Shattuck said he did not anticipate any additional pressure on Harvard to stiffen drug-use policies and enforcement...
...addition, the new bill would stiffen the penalty for refusing to take the test from a 90-day suspension to a 150-day suspension...
...sanctions. Six of the twelve E.C. member nations did not even bother to send their foreign ministers. A British proposal that the entire Community withdraw its ambassadors from Damascus for consultations was blocked by France, West Germany, Spain and Greece. Proposals to cut off arms sales to Syria, stiffen visa requirements for Syrian visitors and place restrictions on Syrian embassies and plane flights in Europe were all tabled until an E.C. meeting Nov. 10 in London...
...asked, "Well, if there was an accident, when will they come back?" Concord, nestled by New Hampshire's Merrimack River, is one of the nation's smallest state capitals (pop. 30,400). Linked like the rest of the world by the searing television images, the whole city seemed to stiffen in sorrow. Said Pharmacy Clerk Timothy Shurtleff: "People froze in their tracks." A local radio station began playing mourning music. "It's like part of the family has been killed," said Barbara Underwood, who had been watching at the library. The townspeople were not alone. The vivacious McAuliffe had come...