Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California's agriculture in bloom, the state's aerospace industry has faced problems. California's contractors took more than a decade to recover fully from the industry's last depression when the Apollo space program wound down, and Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas are still facing stiff head winds in the commercial jet market. But the state has maintained its 20% share of all defense contracts. Aerospace firms have such a choking backlog of orders that even an immediate decision to speed up defense spending would not result in any surge in new jobs until...
...markings) from Taiwan and gold (sometimes also fake) from the mainland. If that first shipment of nylon from Taiwan-which came indirectly via Hong Kong-is any indication, Taiwan could have a significant future market in Fujian. In less than two weeks, the shipment was 90% sold, despite a stiff price of $10 a meter...
...minority student yield is running close to the expected level, Fitzsimmons said, although final figures are not yet available. The percentage of minority students accepting admission was slightly under the general acceptance rate, Fitzsimmons said, adding that this is normal because of "the stiff competition for high caliber" minority students...
...battle just as stiff may be brewing in Cambridgeport, where the Community Development Department is currently surveying all properties to come up with a plan for growth. One neighborhood faction is for development at any cost. "The blight of the Simplex site is encroaching on our homes," James Caragianes says. Another group also wants to see the site used, but preferably by industry. East Cambridge, where massive infusions of federal money have increased incentives for development, is the best example of successful planning in Cambridge, Vickery says...
...sticky day and his t-shirt was wet with sweat. He chose to forego the thick air, so he stayed prone and parched until he felt stiff and starched. Consider the limit as n approaches infinity...if n is infinitely far away, what of 2n? A sticky question, so take instead the limits to growth...when does a less developed country become developed? When does mortality end and force begin? Sketch the graph. Draw the line. Are martyrs altruists or egoistic hedonists at heart? But it all harks back to the distinction between Nazism and Hitlerism--if, in fact...