Word: stiffs
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...amputating both of the youth's legs. The horrible moment of self-discovery made a deep impression on Reagan. The day the scene was shot he clambered onto the sickbed, which had a hole cut in the mattress to hide his legs. "I spent almost that whole hour in stiff confinement," Reagan said. "Gradually the affair began to terrify me. In some weird way, I felt something horrible had happened to my body." When shooting began, Reagan recalled, "I opened my eyes dazedly, looked around, slowly let my gaze travel downward ... I can't describe even now my feeling...
...Anxiety about the world's leading petroleum producer saw oil prices spike to an all-time high of $42.33 per barrel on June 1 before sliding back to $38.45 last week. The surge of attacks is prompting hundreds of expats to leave, and those who remain behind are scared stiff. "Guys are growing beards and putting 'Allah is Great' bumper stickers on their cars," says a longtime American resident. "A suit and a tie is tantamount to wearing a bulls-eye." For the third time in six weeks, the State Department issued a warning "strongly urging" some 25,000 Americans...
While Harvard has long been an international leader in the life sciences, never has it faced such stiff competition...
...rebar-stiff newsreaders intoning stilted copy supported by cheap graphics. The channel was "essentially a translation service for Chinese-language programs," Terenzio says. But CCTV International did have one small advantage: the English-language broadcaster is unintelligible to most Chinese, so its journalists enjoy slightly more reporting leeway. In one of his first moves, Terenzio called a meeting to stress that "reporters never say what they think, only what they know" and to urge that all government statements be attributed to their source, standard practice in the West. Within two weeks, "they were practically attributing the weather report," Terenzio says...
...sure, once the Fed starts raising rates, you never know how far it will go. Stephen Roach, global chief economist at Morgan Stanley, says the Fed has been "irresponsible" in not boosting rates already. He is worried that a series of stiff hikes may be needed to make up for lost time. Uncertainty surrounding how far and how fast rates will rise is what has investors running for cover. But few believe the coming rate boosts will stop the recovery. Economists generally expect orderly rate increases that by the end of 2005 will have pushed the benchmark short-term...