Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avert an all-out trade war with the U.S., China agreed to resume discussions in Beijing this week on the piracy of U.S.-made goods, including movies, music and computer software. The overture, which did not mention any specific proposals, came less than a week after Washington slapped stiff tariffs on Chinese products worth more than $1 billion. The levies are due to take effect...
With his professorial looks and wooden rhetoric, Lionel Jospin is nobody's idea of a charismatic candidate. His detractors claim he is boring, strident and stiff as a broom handle; the best his supporters can say about him is that he is earnest, honest and faithful to Socialist ideals. Yet the onetime economics teacher and former Education Minister pulled off a small miracle last week: within two days of winning the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, he saw his poll ratings rise four points. The modest increase was the first sign that the beleaguered Socialists might actually survive into...
...later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared that he's seen as stiff and sardonic, still perceived as a hatchet man by those who recall his slash-and-burn campaign tactics as Gerald Ford's 1976 vice-presidential running mate, well, then maybe he was right to use network TV's hippest show to lighten his image...
...fair elections. According to opposition leaders, the signers agreed privately to hold new balloting in the unruly southern states of Tabasco and Chiapas, where widespread fraud was reported in last year's elections. In Washington the Clinton Administration's proposed $40 billion bailout of the weakened peso met with stiff opposition from Democrats...
...said that there have always been a large number of restaurants in the Square and that competition has been consistently stiff...