Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown faces a stiff challenge against a Clarkson team making its mark at exactly the time it wanted to. The Golden Knights, behind a 24-save effort from goalie Chris Rogles, held tough against Rensselaer in the first semifinal game, winning...
Walling far outshines the other cast members. Kitt Harasaki, as Dr. Mitchell, seems unnaturally stiff and Colin Stokes, the husband, appears effective as a paternalistic clod but uncomfortable with the language...
...regain the national title it won in 1990, however, Harvard will have to overcome stiff competition--much of it from within the Ivy League...
...ride, the old man pays 300 rubles, worth about 50 cents at the latest exchange rate but a stiff 10% of the average pensioner's monthly income. Ordinarily, Artyom would have refused anything less than 600. "Sometimes I give them a break," he concedes...
...Washington by the thought of economic sacrifice. "If any of these fuel-tax options were politically easy, we would have done them already," says Rafe Pomerance, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute. Some of the impact could be softened by measures like a cut in the stiff Social Security payroll tax. Even so, if Clinton hopes to pare down the deficit, he will have to persuade voters to share the pain and then stick to his guns against all the opponents that are mobilizing to fight whatever he puts forward...