Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about," says Ganaghan Prime and other Massachusetts high technology companies have been working with the Lioutenant Governor's Office for the past year deafting what many consultants call model computer crime legislation. Under the proposed law unauthorized users of computer systems would be viewed as electronic trespassers and suffer stiff penalties for violating corporate or individual privacy by unwanted intrusion. Penalties for data theft or electronic manipulation of data would also be increased by the bill...
...Amagatsu and his four dancers coil and slide, curl and waddle, spring and go still, they seem to shape themselves into grooves. Their bodies, whitened with traditional Kabuki makeup, can go as stiff as steel beams being hoisted skyward on a cable, as supple and serpentine as a garden stream. When Amagatsu moves diagonally across a stage past two huge brass circles in Jomon Sho, the movement is a piece of modest majesty that sets down a single, perfect line in Sankai Juku's geometry of mystery...
...entered the Spanish-style Malacañang Palace for an audience with Marcos. She was immediately ushered into the presidential study. After a 15-minute discussion behind closed doors, Agrava and the President emerged together and walked to the palace's Ceremonial Hall. There, they sat in high, stiff-backed chairs before the blinding glare of television lights, until Agrava handed the President her own 121-page minority report on the killing. Said she: "Your Excellency, I have now the honor to present to you my report." Replied Marcos: "I hereby formally receive the report...
Robert W. Snyder '38, a funeral director from Riegelsville. PA, said he wasn't certain whether he would join the band on the field Saturday, adding that he would "see how stiff the drill...
...poverty." But many politically "conservative" Chinese, who still believe that penury is a virtue, may feel that the new brand of socialism sounds suspiciously like capitalism. In the highest echelons, Deng has been supported by Premier Zhao Ziyang and General Secretary Hu Yaobang, but has evidently run into some stiff resistance over the pace of his program from the three other members of the influential Politburo Standing Committee: President Li Xiannian, former Planning Czar Chen Yu and Marshal Ye Jianying, a Communist leader for half a century who may be the last party luminary strong enough to question Deng...