Word: stiffs
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...Murkowski plans to introduce a Senate bill calling for oil exploration in 1.5 million acres of the ANWR coastal plain, north of the Brooks Range and east of the Canning River--a section known as Area 1002. Murkowski's legislation, like the Bush recommendations that will follow it, faces stiff opposition in the evenly divided Senate, not just from Democrats but from a key bloc of at least eight Republicans--Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, James Jeffords of Vermont, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois...
...British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues--there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff of a public reaction if the end results of their research are known...
According to the "Drug Tome"--Lewis's affectionate name for the 22-page pamphlet the College issues to all undergraduates in September--simple alcohol offenses can result in any number of disciplinary responses, from an informal warning to a requirement to withdraw. The best way to avoid a stiff penalty, administrators say, is to be honest with authorities...
Finally, let's play a game of "Who You Calling a Stiff?" To play you must think back two years and recall where you thought quarterbacks Trent Dilfer, Kerry Collins, Rich Gannon and Daunte Culpepper would be now. If you said leading their respective teams to conference championship games and owning a combined 7-2 playoff record (7-2! These guys?), then Dionne Warwick has nothing...
...objected, among other things, to a provision that would impose stiff penalties for gun violations under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In his letter to Pratt, Ashcroft seemed to agree, saying, "I am working to see that the RICO provisions are stripped from the bill... ." A version of the measure passed both houses but died in a House-Senate conference...