Word: stiffs
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...classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks--and enormous, padded diapers stuffed inside their underclothes...
Back in 1996, New York Times Magazine writer Bruce Weber found a star in Maya, the lucky stiff who edged out her multilingual, multitalented classmates at Van Nuys High School in southern California for a spot in Harvard's Class of 2000. Today, the three other students, once victims of the statistical probability of Harvard rejection, now graduate from their own prestigious universities, with stories to tell...
...while Fineberg's name has cropped up on most prediction lists, he will face a stiff, competitive presidential search process. The search committee may decide to promote one of Harvard's deans--former president Derek C. Bok was dean of the law school--or find a candidate from another university like Rudenstine, a onetime Princeton provost...
...here accidentally. You've made it to the very top of a very stiff group of competitors," Mendelsohn said...
...sense, last week's stiff interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve's little known Federal Open Market Committee was a no-brainer, given the still sizzling growth of the U.S. economy. But in another sense, the panel's increase in the so-called federal-funds rate from 6% to 6.5% marked a spectacular wager on your future, with your money, by 10 unelected and largely unknown officials operating behind closed doors. By raising the rate that underpins most other borrowing costs to its highest level in nine years, the committee is hoping--make that praying--to cool the economy...