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...blue mood last night, Foale had not expected to hear them this morning. Wriggling out of his sleeping bag in the Spektr science module and drifting into the main module, he saw that Tsibliyev looked positively jaunty. Instead of his usual rumpled jumpsuit, the commander was wearing his stiffer, more formal dress jumpsuit. The fabric no doubt itched, but Tsibliyev was a pilot first, and today he had a piece of flying to do. He wasn't about to underdress for the occasion...
...today's challenge should prove a little stiffer. Whoever starts between the pipes must make sure to position the Harvard defenders carefully on opposing free kicks or Hartford could escape with its second win over a nationally-ranked foe this year...
...Gore with its recommendations for making the deal work. Especially upsetting to the Koop-Kessler commission is a provision forbidding a nicotine ban for 12 years and requiring a lengthy court hearing if the agency even wants to restrict the levels of nicotine. The commission also called for stiffer fines against tobacco companies if teenage smoking does not start to drop within two years, instead of the five-year timeframe the settlement proposes...
Harvard dispatched Boston College, 4-1, on Oct. 9, with captain Wil Kohler recording a hat trick. Loyola, however, proved stiffer opposition. The Crimson weathered a scoreless first half before goals by Wilmot and McLaughlin pushed the team to victory...
...some reason he evokes less warmth than much stiffer predecessors like Carter and Bush and more publicly offensive men like Johnson and even Nixon. There are still plenty of people around who would fall on their sword for Nixon. Who besides James Carville would do that for Bill...