Word: stodgier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funds earmarked for closing the gender gap. And this effort must go further that merely encouraging women to participate in future capital campaigns; Rudenstine and Knowles must themselves be willing to convince donors with large wallets to lend their support to the cause, even if this risks alienating the stodgier conservative white men among them...
...Ritz-Carlton Hotel (15 Arlington Street, Boston) also serves a delicious afternoon tea but it has a higher price, a stodgier atmosphere and smaller servings than the Four Seasons...
...when Restic came back to the stodgier American game, his ideas pushed the limit of the rulebook. Game officials had to be briefed before each game. (One referee commented that he had difficulty telling which receivers were eligible and which were not, but always gave Restic the benefit of the doubt.) In 1973, former Northeastern Coach Joe Zabilski called the Multi-Flex "the most imaginative offense around, the thing of the future...
...space shuttle, American industry still lives by the stodgier, workaday technology of the railroad. The proof: less than 24 hours after 235,000 railworkers went on strike last week against the nation's major freight rail companies, Congress, at the urging of President Bush, ordered the strikers back to work. Bush defended the action, saying that "the strike would cripple the economy and adversely affect national security." Some half million workers in the automobile and other rail-dependent industries faced layoffs within days of the aborted job action...