Word: stiffs
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...murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Aides later ascertained that Kohl had actually said no decision had been made and coupled that with an assurance that if Hamadei is tried and convicted in West Germany, he will get a stiff prison sentence. That was not the rebuff Reagan thought it was, but neither was it what the President wanted to hear...
...Petersen’s textbooks tend to remain stiff-spined and clean-margined because he has reading and researching that has nothing to do with a syllabus. Without the president’s near-manic devotion to his job, it would be hard to imagine the UC producing volumes such as the 10,000-word position paper that was released at the beginning of the Council’s “Mental Health Awareness Month” in April...
...While the admissions office has no special process for evaluating students who have criminal records or other “particular characteristics,” she adds that, very few, if any, students with criminal records are admitted because competition is stiff...
...battle with leukemia sidelined men’s co-captain foilist Sam Cross. Down two foilists and a saber fencer, Harvard set out to defend its title while taking on tougher competition. In the Ivy League, Penn was better, and so was Columbia. Nationally, the competition was as stiff as ever. At the NCAA Tournament, the Crimson faced the challenge of taking on 12-person teams with just 11 fencers—it was almost impossible for Harvard to take home the gold. “The field in general was probably the strongest I’ve seen...
...Thanks to Fitzgerald's brief advocating a stiff sentence for Libby, we found out last week that the CIA did indeed consider Plame's identity classified, at least for 18 months. The prosecutor has brought this up now in apparent support of a remarkable claim: Libby should serve 30 to 37 months in prison-about twice what the federal probation office recommends and way more than the probation favored by the defense-because the underlying (and uncharged) crime was so serious...