Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruins arrive in Cambridge with a well-disciplined starting seven and a reputation for dazzling opponents with teamwork. Known also for quickness, Brown has the advantage of having faced stiff competition all year, to which their 18-8-1 season mark attests...
...tournament favorite Uconn--ranked third nationally--faces stiff competition, particularly from the Crimson and Cortland State...
...deals with Walesa, say the general's associates, his first initiative may be a peace overture: an appeal to Solidarity and the Catholic Church to join with the party in a national salvation front. The aim of this proposed alliance would be to rally popular support for the stiff economic measures, including higher prices and continued food rationing, necessary to pull Poland out of its crisis. But the price of that support may be more than the party is willing to pay. For one thing, the union and the church would have to be given access to classified economic...
...affordable to the masses. For instance, his walk-on Laker Skytrain service from New York City to London costs only $250 one way, less than half of what most other airlines have been charging for even their economy-class tickets. But suddenly, Sir Freddie finds that he is facing stiff competition from one of the very airlines that his cutthroat pricing policies had siphoned business from in the first place: Pan American World Airways. Under its new chairman, C. Edward Acker, the loss-plagued air carrier has decided to go all-out to fill its planes and boost revenues. Thus...
...alcohol. Though smoking figures among the young, especially females, are rising slightly, 1.8 million older smokers have given up cigarettes. It is possible that no future leader will have to echo the worry of Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1858: "I am convinced that such a set of black-coated, stiff-jointed, soft-muscled, pasty-complexioned youth as we can boast in our Atlantic cities never before sprang from the loins of Anglo-Saxon lineage." Or of President Kennedy in 1960: "Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security." In a country so lately...