Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts, the party faces a stiff challenge in meeting the May 5 deadline, Commoner predicts. With 39,425 signatures required, Massachusetts is among the toughest states for achieving ballot status, Commoners believes, adding that poor organization earlier has left the party in a tough spot...
...policies was California's environmentalists. Reagan had protested that "there seems to be an organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir that would have submerged the ancestral burial grounds...
Trailing by two goals only 3:28 into the contest, New York stifled the born again Bruins the rest of the way by slowing the pace of the game and frustrating their offensive thrusts with stiff backchecking...
Earlier in the year when the hitters were slumping. Harvard's pitching and defense picked up the slack. Yesterday, as a stiff wind made tight defense almost impossible, the sluggers chipped in with key hits, and Harvard improved its overall record to an impressive 9-4 mark...
...call for sweeping reforms in the American system--proposals he argues are politically realistic. Democratizing investments and allowing the American worker a share of investment decisions and corporate ownership would effectively combat destructive corporate power. Progressive taxation that does not discriminate against the poor and middle classes, coupled with stiff inheritance taxes, would help to equalize the maldistribution of wealth and income in the U.S. Finally, Harrington offers a controversial solution to the nation's economic ills: a commitment to full employment, which would at the same time combat inflation and more effectively distribute wealth...