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Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then it's on to New York, where the Yankees, winners of the first half, provide stiff opposition for our split-season sensations. But the Yankees haven't played baseball -- real baseball -- since June. That was three months, one manager and two pennant races ago. Let's pretend they are outclassed by Bobby Ojeda and Bruce Hurst, the heroes of Boston's second half, and lose in four games...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: A False Summer | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

...Saturday the harriers meet Wheaton College at Franklin Park. October 2, they will face a stiff challenge when the University of New Hampshire--a squad they lost to last year--and Brown travel to Franklin Park for a tri-meet...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Harriers Outrun UMass, 21-40 | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

...consumer activists there is some hope for a growing backlash among concerned citizens. Says Jim Hightower, president of the Texas Consumer Association: "As the establishment stiff-arms us, they build issues for us to run on. We have eager ears for the first time in years." The Illinois Public Action Council, a coalition of 95 citizens' groups, has formed a political committee to elect sympathetic officeholders. Minnesota Citizens Action, a statewide consumer organization, responded to a cut in its federal funding by setting out to knock on every door in St. Paul, and many doors elsewhere, in a successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let the Buyers Beware | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...quite whistling in the dark. But the high spirits at 30,000 ft. as Air Force One carried Ronald Reagan and his top aides away from a balmy vacation in the West and back toward the duties of running the Government from Washington seemed out of sync with the stiff challenges ahead. Chief of Staff James Baker turned his Texas tenor loose on country music that only he could hear through his earphones. Communications Adviser David Gergen, fresh from an outing in the Tetons, could not resist the beat of the Supremes. He grabbed the hands of Margaret Tutwiler, Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Be the Party's Over | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Until last fall, the future of MATEP was cloudy. Since breaking ground in 1976, the plant, designed to provide the energy needs of 13 Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research institutions, met stiff, vocal community groups who feared for their lungs and lives. A series of decisions by the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) had repeatedly stalled installation of MATEP's crucial engines--which are the vital link in the cogeneration process--sending the University in search of further pollution safeguards...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Three-and-a-Half Years Later, MATEP Gets Its Engines | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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