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Actually, Ross Perot, Paul Tsongas and Lee Iacocca -- men of considerable popularity -- have proposed even stiffer medicine. Presumably, the millions of Americans who consider themselves Perot-lees favor his 50 cents per gal. phased in over five years. But 4.3 cents a year forever wouldn't be half bad either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: A Tax Increase You Can Avoid | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

Many local caterers serve the same reunion functions each year. In these cases, competition appears to be stiffer, at least in part because alumni, and not the University, hire caterers and often are not as locked in to the same contractors...

Author: By Joe Mathews and Andrew L. Wright, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Reunion Deals Raise Questions | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

Princeton ripped into this opening, and the Crimson lost its matches at the third, fourth and fifth positions. Both Co-Captain Neal Tew (playing fifth) and senior Josh Horwitz (playing third) each won their previous match against the Tigers but lost to the stiffer competition...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: M. Squash Falls To Princeton, 5-4 | 3/2/1993 | See Source »

...penalty were up to the operator number five, however, the penalty would be stiffer...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Alarms Hit Dunster, Mather | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

...arson in Molln elicited more calls for stiffer laws and sharper penalties, and at week's end, Germany officially banned the far-right Nationalistic Front. German federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge of the case, marking the first instance in which he has assumed responsibility for an investigation of far-right violence. The use of the Hitler salute on the phone, said Von Stahl in explaining his involvement, "indicates that the unidentified criminals wanted to use their crime to help restore a Nazi dictatorship in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Circle of Hate Widens | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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