Despite increasingly stiff opposition, all assigned waves had been landed by 1012.

As other countries began to take on many of the old industrial tasks, our domestic industries, especially autos and steel, faced increasingly stiff competition.

But the President, who completed his first 100 days in office Friday, also faces increasingly stiff pressure to negotiate.

The adjutant was cheery, the priest increasingly stiff and stuffy.

Smaller firms are also deeply concerned about increasingly stiff fees and fines for even the most minor infractions.

On the one hand, party leaders have adopted increasingly stiff attitudes in dealing with strikers.

Moreover, the price of the compounds is going up because of production cutbacks and increasingly stiff Federal taxes.

Permission to hold issue-centered rallies in Central Park has been met with increasingly stiff resistance from the city.

They quartered into an increasingly stiff wind for the remainder of the day.

The prospect is for an increasingly stiff dose of testing; and yet the politics of the situation are by no means obvious.