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American metric advocates encountered stiff opposition in the '70s and '80s.
Kissinger offers them a stiff foreign policy framework, a set of principles sharply contrasted to Clinton's ad hocism.
She assures us that all reasonable people can agree that disseminating birth control and sex education is the best way to reduce the abortion rate; that stiff sentences for small drug offenses don't reduce drug abuse; that global warming is producing "disastrous consequences."
A foolproof flower, such as the stiff, relentless black-eyed Susan, can never break your heart.
The Washington Post also off-leads Kosovo but its lead is yesterday's signal from the House Republican leadership that despite recently endorsing a 10 percent across-the-board tax cut, it will no longer press very hard for it, because, says the paper, of stiff opposition from GOP members of Congress who fear the plan is too costly and politically risky because it smacks of favoring the rich.