Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With a lot of tourists chasing a few leaves, the competition is beginning to get stiff. The Connecticut Chamber of Commerce says that everything's fine - you just might want to come by to view the trees a week or two earlier this year - and recently took out ads in 11 magazines to reinforce the message. The state of Maine will post weekly foliage updates beginning September 15. In Vermont, state officials smugly point out that the drought hasn't hit their state as hard, especially in the northern half. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, suffering through its worst summer for rain...
...program staff say strict rules and stiff consequences for the students, most of whom are still in high school and are under 21, are necessary to keep students out of serious trouble...
...conduct rules for SSP students are considerably tighter than those for the rest of the summer school. Students are not allowed to visit upperclass Houses or to leave the campus overnight. Just attending a party where alcohol is being served also carries stiff consequences...
Under current law, individuals who take money from an IRA to make a charitable contribution--which includes those made to colleges and universities faced a stiff tax penalty...
...show-stealing Daniel Prevost in the role of tax inspector Cheval. What starts off as a simple reversal of roles, with the idiot turning the tables on the yuppies, ends up not being a reversal at all; if anything, these characters seem more locked than ever into their stiff socio-economic roles, returning to their unhappy lives by the end of the film...