Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmers face three major hurdles this year: sharply higher prices for farm machinery, stiff anticipated hikes in the price of diesel fuel, and, of course, the weather. The grain belt's perennial Cassandras are already predicting terrible weather for the spring and summer. This time, though, they have real reason for worry. Last summer's drought left the subsoil in the lower wheat-growing states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas seriously dehydrated. Another dry summer would cut yields in these areas significantly, and the outlook for rain is not good. Says Iowa's agricultural climatologist Paul Waite...
...killing were examined like runes and held up to the light like talismans, small shards of some awful psychic puzzle. A pudgy Georgia-born ex-security guard from Hawaii named Mark David Chapman fired his shots at Lennon from what the police call "combat stance": in a stiff crouch, one hand wrapped around the butt of his newly purchased revolver, the other around his wrist to steady it. As Lennon took six staggering steps, Chapman, 25, simply stood still, and then went with the arresting officers like a model citizen who had been unfairly rousted on a traffic bust. Chapman...
...does not go that far. It prevents Government appeals of actual verdicts, the Justices ruled, but not of sentences. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, seemed to some experts to cut two ways. While it may comfort hard-liners by giving prosecutors a second chance to obtain a stiff sentence, its primary effect may be to further a movement toward more uniform sentencing that is backed by many liberals...
...remains, with speech his most exalting faculty. Talk is the tool, the toy, the comfort and joy of the human species. The pity is that talkers so often blurt so far beyond the line of what is needed and desired that they have to be listened to with a stiff upper...
Long-term political change, he believes, will be difficult to implement. "Any reform will hurt the vested interest," Zhao contends. "Bureaucracy abhors change and present policies are running into a stiff resistance." If Deng's policies fail, Zhao warns, the nation will either revert to following the Soviet Union or become "something like Iran, neither pro-Western nor pro-Eastern, but internally confused and chaotic...