• If so, the fines and sanctions suffered by the auditing firm and its partners may be stiff but not ruinous.

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  • As for the Hollywood years, Morris tells us that Reagan was not a great actor--too stiff--but he was not as bad as Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda have made out.

    FORBES: REAGAN'S CENTURY

  • Hillary Clinton may love her starched pantsuits, but she's not too stiff to have a stiff drink, right?

    CNN: Commentary: Michelle Obama finds tabloid love

  • The people of Georgia may not support stiff gun controls but they are as aware as people in Arizona or Colorado or Connecticut that we must strengthen, not weaken, our mental health care system.

    FORBES: How Obamacare Will Impact Americans With Disabilities

  • It might be a little stiff in the morning but only because I have not bowled at that pace for a while.

    BBC: Anderson took 2-31 in seven overs for Lancashire on Sunday

  • Increasing Coke's share is an expensive proposition in the face of stiff competition not just from Pepsi-brand cola but from such fast-growing smaller brands as Cadbury Schweppes' Dr Pepper and sport drinks like Pepsi's Gatorade.

    FORBES: Gone flat

  • Increasing Coke's share is an expensive proposition in the face of stiff competition not just from Pepsi-brand cola, but from fast-growing smaller brands such as Cadbury Schweppes' Dr Pepper and sport drinks like Pepsi's Gatorade.

    FORBES: Gone Flat

  • It's normal that the back tends to get stiff in the grass-court season but it's just not nice when it doesn't go away and you can't play freely.

    BBC: Wimbledon 2010: Roger Federer stunned by Tomas Berdych

  • The identity of the painting's subject is not known, but it is thought the balding, bearded man in a stiff, starched collar may be Juan Mateos, King Philip IV of Spain's master of the hunt.

    CNN: Previously unknown Velazquez portrait discovered

  • Not all the performances soar (the British actors seem particularly stiff), but the romantic leads are wonderful.

    NEWYORKER: Lagaan

  • "My goal is not to have four or five ventures going, but dozens, " says Gorman, a stiff midwestern lawyer who applies the same scattergun approach to shooting quail in his spare time.

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