Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy to limit weekend library hours at Stanford has faced stiff opposition from undergraduates including some who plan to stage an all-night sit-in to protest the move later this week...
That justification for an unprecedented news blackout instantly raised a furor. Major news organizations fired off stiff protests. The American Society of Newspaper Editors formally complained that the exclusion went "beyond the normal limits of military censorship." Two more days passed before the first handful of reporters were escorted to Grenada...
Francis H. Duchay'55, another CCA incumbent, followed Wylie with $15,176.85 in receipts and $12,952.19 in expenditures. He and Wylie are seen to be facing a stiff challenge from Alice Wolf, a former Cambridge School Committee member and CCA endorsee who led non-incumbents with $14,221.42 collected and $11,550.61 spent...
Admittedly, First Affair goes a bit too far. Besides running the gamut of simplistic emotions and stiff, unbelievable actions, CBS somehow managed to depict every known Harvard stereotype. But from a public relations standpoint, even the overwrought tale of King's adventures carries a grain of truth. The admissions office has no control on how students do, how they behave, what relationships they have once they get here. Merely predictors, they can only form a Harvard class, not lead it through...
...well he will do in the un customary role of public salesman for the policies of his department rather than backstage adviser to higher officials. He has never been the top boss in a government job and a public advocate as well. His public speaking style is about as stiff and uninspiring as his court prose...