Word: stiffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus, University dining halls, which served about 1100 students, faced stiff competition in their attempt to attract students, and, in fact, operated "at a heavy loss to the University" in 1909, according to University President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1878 in a letter to an HDA director...
...addictive product and not lose sales. In England a pack of smokes goes for nearly $5, vs. less than $2 in the U.S., and yet they still have plenty of smokers. But tobacco users are more price sensitive than you might imagine. Canada in 1994 had to repeal a stiff tobacco tax that had pushed prices past $5 a pack because a violent black market developed. U.S. consumption peaked at 640 billion cigarettes in 1981, which is when the industry started raising prices aggressively. When prices stabilized around 1992, so did demand...
...costs plummet: The study says that if the goverment spent the same amount over a 15-year period, mandatory minimums would reduce national cocaine consumption by 13 kilograms, while conventional enforcement would cut it by 27 kilograms. Treatment of heavy users would slash usage by more than 100 kilograms. Stiff prison sentences don't do much in the long term to deter drug trafficking because a jailed supplier is often easily replaced. High-level drug lords, who would be deterred by such tough penalties, pay someone else to carry the drugs and take the risk...
...less tax-savvy people who suddenly realize that their heirs face a worry usually thought to be reserved for Rockefellers. Thanks to decades-long booms in stock and real estate values, more people are making the dismal discovery every year, and their shock is compounded when they learn how stiff the tax is. It starts at 37% on amounts in excess of $600,000 and escalates to 41% on amounts over $1 million and 55% on anything over $3 million...
...open-mindedness I'm realizing the joys of nailpolish for the first time since the days when it came in fruit flavors. There's something very sensually satisfying in the act of painting it carefully on, dabbing at my finger tips with a tissue, and fluttering my hands stiff-fingered to dry them...