Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the IDF, Harvard must learn to avoid stiff formality at all costs. The best way for Harvard's community to become more effective in crushing FID once and for all is, to quote Ross Perot, "join hands together and just lick this problem...
...Sometimes you beat people you didn't think you could beat," Costin Scalise said. The meet is a good opportunity for Harvard to face stiff competition outside the Ivy League, she added...
...result, the Japanese have retreated from some markets. Fujitsu, for example, is closing its U.S. chipmaking plant in San Diego. The factory made one-megabit memory ! chips, whose price has plunged in the wake of overproduction by South Korean firms. Japanese firms have recently had to contend with stiff competition from low-cost producers in Taiwan as well. They have also fumbled: Toshiba invented flash technology, but Intel picked up the idea and ran with it. Says Thomas Thornhill III, an analyst at Montgomery Securities: "We all thought Japan Inc. was the Godzilla that would gobble up the U.S. chip...
...Italy legislators tried in 1975 to enact stiff bans in public places. The results have been mixed in a country that rarely takes any good-for-you legislation seriously: while theaters and public transportation are smoke- free, hospitals and schools are not always, and restaurants are decidedly not. Parliament will soon try again to pass a law that will so reduce public smoking areas that Bruno Simoncelli, a two-pack-a-day government filing clerk, frets, "I'll have to go back to smoking in the bathroom the way I did when I first started at 16." Even so, restaurants...
...debt. Gramm is not well liked, but he is respected and has made no secret of his White House ambitions. Though he lacks a political base, Cheney is a more affable conservative who is increasingly mentioned as a compromise candidate by those who despair of uncharismatic Gramm and his stiff medicine...