Perhaps that's because Mandel is stiff, policy-deprived and appears to be about 12 years old.
In immediate response, the under secretary of defense for policy, Walter B. Slocombe, made the firmest of warnings to Beijing, saying midweek that China would face "incalculable consequences" if it followed through on its stiffer policy.
If the Bush administration does push ahead with its plans -- and it has given every sign that it will -- China's objections loom as a stiff foreign policy challenge.
Until recently, European leaders argued that they could quell the crisis with an underfinanced rescue fund and stiff austerity policies imposed on borrowers to re-establish their creditworthiness.
Mike Huckabee's campaign is a mixture of feelings, which are all on the side of the average working stiff, and policies, which are all on the side of the stock exchange.
The efforts represent an about-face to an approach that began three decades ago, when corrections departments — responding to increasing problems with prison gangs, stiffer sentencing policies that led to overcrowding and the "get tough on crime" demands of legislators — began removing ever larger numbers of inmates from the general population.
But before that, before the apartment on 31st street across from a pizza shop and a beaten up library with a stiff late fee policy, there was a walk to Bank of America.
When we read of the Jules Brulatour affair, we knew that Mr. Dewey was up against something stiffer than a policy racket.
Vouchers will be scrapped by next autumn.In this section A little less lunacy Sacked, but so politely The stiff-upper-lip policy Achtung!
The New Yorker, February 4 , 1939P. 11 When we read of the Jules Brulatour affair, we knew that Mr. Dewey was up against something stiffer than a policy racket.
At A-level, 80% of history pupils were examined on Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.In this section A little less lunacy Sacked, but so politely The stiff-upper-lip policy Achtung!
