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...those who do not pass the last computer test, to be given today, will be given the option of taking the tests during freshman week next year. Those who do not pass will be forced to enroll in a course designed to fulfill the requirements next semester, or face stiff penalties from the Ad Board...
...Connecticut River in Hanover, N.H., the varsity lightweights faced equally bad weather conditions and a stiff challenge from the MIT and Dartmouth boats...
Bankers, who once feared that their Polish loans might become total losses, seemed satisfied with last week's settlement. It requires the Poles to pay a stiff 1.75% above the basic international lending rate (currently 15½%). Warsaw is to repay $120 million this year, and the remaining $2.28 billion in twice-a-year installments beginning in December 1985. Notes an official of one of the 500 banks that took part in the agreement: "This all demonstrates that Poland has the ability to do more than people thought it could...
...opening game, the nervous squad committed a slew of errors, letting good pitches go by for strikes and popping the ball up in the stiff breeze for easy outs...
Kirby's Ventroux is a convincingly stuffy and image-conscious politician. His overly refined accent and stiff posture mark him as a man set in his ways; he clearly has more difficulty dealing with his wife than he does with mere matters of government. His attempts to explain things to her are constantly foiled by her illogical reasoning. Unable to make her understand by any rational means. Ventroux rants and raves at her, finally throwing her out of the room in frustration...