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Giscard evidently hopes that a less-stiff presidential style will soften his image as a remote aristocrat living in a world of economics dossiers. Above all, a "more relaxed" presidency, Giscard feels, could help reduce the social tensions of a polarized nation...
...multinational consortium called Airbus Industrie, went into commercial service on Air France between Paris and London. This week the ambitious MRCA (multirole combat aircraft), a joint project of Britain, West Germany and Italy, is scheduled to make its maiden flight in the skies above Munich. Both promise to offer stiff competition for American planemakers...
...placed his samples from a qualitative analysis laboratory in an oven to incubate overnight; when he went to check them in the morning, they were gone-presumably stolen by a rival. Other students resort to "dry-labbing": faking the results of experiments on paper. Despite the possibility of stiff penalties for those who get caught, cheating in examinations has become widespread...
...UMass had a couple of heroes of its own as Rick Hanson and Jerry Mondalto each rapped a pair up into the stiff breeze that carried out of the ballpark. Mondalto's second blast came in the ninth, driving in three to tie up the game...
Radcliffe's final time was 3:55.6 into a stiff headwind. The varsity four, with stroke Barbara Norris, Anne Robinson at three, Robin Lothrop at two, Sarah Kuhn at bow, and coxswain Amy Sacks, took a come-from-behind victory. A bit of psychological warfare ensued before the race began as the crews were lined up at the stake boats. The B.U. stroke, in the lane next to Radcliffe, yelled across, "Listen, girls, they have the finesse, but we have the power...