Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outspoken Pontiff put the Jaruzelski government through some anxious hours during his first days in Poland, more trouble lies ahead this week. On Monday the Pope visits Poznan and Katowice, an industrial city where steelworkers and coal miners put up stiff resistance to martial law. Then John Paul moves on to Wroclaw, scene of some of the most violent clashes between Solidarity demonstrators and riot police. His trip will end with a sentimental return to his home town of Cracow...
...Hungary has been able to raise new loans in the West ($1.6 billion in 1982) to strengthen its cash position, partly owing to Western confidence in Fekete's economic management. The country last year joined the International Monetary Fund, and it has since met the organization's stiff loan requirements. Hungary succeeded through an austerity program that included a cutback in imports and sharply increased prices for consumer goods like gasoline...
...born in France and raised in the former French African territory of Cameroon.) Dampening Yannick's win only slightly was a 42-day suspension and $20,000 fine from the International Tennis Federation for his refusal to participate in a scheduled tournament last month. The punishment was stiff, but nowhere near as harsh as the one levied last week against Argentine Gulilermo Vilas, 31, who drew a year's suspension for accepting money simply to show up for a tournament in Rotterdam...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci expressed his disapproval by introducing a second order encouraging all municipal departments in Cambridge to organize "stiff opposition to Harvard University to jeopardize its plans and to stop them in their tracks...
Thursday the heavies travel to California for a weekend race against UCLA, which should provide stiff competition going into the Sprints. The Bruins beat Harvard in last year's San Diego Classics...