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You can see what he means about being "worth it" as sailing boats enjoy the stiff north-easterly pushing through the Sound.
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What's the probability that New York City will stiff bondholders, as it briefly did in 1975?
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But it drew stiff opposition from disgruntled car owners as well as Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness, who frequently sues to break up settlements he regards as collusive or unfair.
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It can reach 6 feet high, is yellowish and is as stiff as a pencil.
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The first of them, that of the immensely dangerous Kevin Pietersen, came off his first ball of the tournament, and prompted a howling, furrowed-browed, stiff-armed gallop of such intensity that it was as if the clock had been turned back and India's greatest captain was in charge of the national side again.
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The dilemma may mirror a cultural dichotomy: Koreans are generally seen as favoring stiff authority, while also tending to tolerate rebellion against it.
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But that doesn't always make it a smart investment, particularly when the stiff fees in some products, such as variable annuities, are considered.
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In a culture as stiff as Finland's, this ritual bears a great value and it also makes the culture more interesting in the eyes of strangers.
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Maybe it's just my imagination, but Sam Worthington seems to be getting slightly less stiff as an actor.
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The film offers privileged views of writer-editor conferences under deadline pressures and page-one editorial meetings (which are rather stiff), but it ignores the many other things the paper does well, such as foreign, financial, and national-affairs reporting, and Rossi misses the underbrush, the secret life and murmured music of the place.
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It was the jab, however, which did the damage for the champion in the second as he landed two stiff rights that brought down Macklin's guard.
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