Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family's fortune (and of the New York Central Railroad), was a whiskey-swilling, street-fighting parvenu who bullied his wife and children, cheated the public and gave away pittances from the $100 million he amassed. Auchincloss notes, a bit sorrowfully, that Vanderbilt and his colleagues in stiff-collar crime like Jay Gould would not find themselves out of place on Drexel Burnham Lambert's Wall Street. Still, the author can find it in his heart to suggest that the commodore's coarseness may have been caused by social insecurity...
...response, the Swiss government has promised to draft tough anti- laundering legislation by mid-May. Last week the federal banking commission announced that it will introduce stiff regulations on bank-note trading to prevent drug traffickers and other criminals from using the country's famed secret bank accounts. The commission also published a 28-page report that faulted Credit Suisse, which handled the bulk of the money in the billion- dollar scheme, for inadequately supervising its accounts...
...companies downplay the potential problem in the ANWR, claiming that modern construction and containment techniques will minimize the impact of exploration. But environmentalists doubt it, and even pro-drilling politicians concede that the idea of developing the ANWR is suddenly facing stiff opposition. Says Cowper: "There's only an indirect connection between the spill and ANWR. But it will be much more difficult to convince Congress that the oil industry can develop the Arctic in a responsible...
...flip side, Michael Townley (Jack Worthing) is almost unbearably stiff and stagey. Not only does he stumble over Wilde's (admittedly tricky) cadences, swallowing lines right and left, but he consistently hits the jokes on the off-beat...
...afford the prices (lunches and dinners often go for $20 to $30 a person, without drinks or wine). Major hotels offer Western joint- venture seekers many distinctly unsocialist hard-currency attractions -- slot machines, for one -- while out on the sidewalks, better-dressed young people hurry by, oblivious to the stiff-knuckled old women sweeping the streets with birch-branch brooms...