Word: stifferent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perfect-but the larger question is: Will you ever get any ships?" Recognizing that the admiral has obviously got his ships, officials in the Defense Department for once tend to side with its outspoken Rickover, feel that the performance of defense contractors would improve markedly if there were stiffer penalties for shoddy work and higher rewards for jobs well done...
McCurdy's barriers will use the same course against stiffer competition in the November Heptagonals...
...political, part savagery-that have taken more than 300,000 lives in Colombia in the past 14 years. Last week President Guillermo Leon Valencia, just one month in office, called on his Cabinet to draft a bill giving him greater power to establish police stations in rural areas, provide stiffer penalties for violence, and funds to combat banditry...
...back in 1958, when Little Lake called in some U.C.L.A. experts to measure how its schools were faring. Spurred by the unflattering report, Little Lake hired a vigorous new superintendent with a taste for higher standards. Superintendent William G. Stanley launched homework for all grades, reading by phonics, a stiffer grading system, mandatory foreign-language study, special classes for the gifted and the retarded. Up went beginning teachers' salaries, topping any in the Los Angeles area. And up went student test scores, says Superintendent Stanley, "from well below national norms to equal or better those norms...
...Financial Times index inched up from 252.8 in late June to 266.7 last week, the preoccupation was over whether Britain would get in the Common Market; financial analysts predicted a brisk rise in stocks if it does. In France, the worry was whether the government would resort to stiffer taxes, or borrowing, to aid the pieds-noirs flocking in from Algeria...