11.   Employers face stiff fines if they knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

12.   Fisher-Price earned the stiff fine by ignoring the potential severity of the situation, he said.

13.   Florida and other states have tried different methods to stop drivers without valid licenses from getting behind the wheel, including stiff fines and vehicle seizures.

14.   Gingrich himself has had similar ethical problems, was reprimanded by the House and is paying off a stiff fine.

15.   Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, is widely expected to appoint a more liberal replacement, who might be more willing to support a stiff fine.

16.   He said an organization that employed such people would be subject to a stiff fine and even the closing of its office.

17.   He suggested that Congress set annual goals for reductions in youth smoking and impose stiff fines on the tobacco companies if the goals were not reached.

18.   Hospitals violating the law would be subject to stiff fines.

19.   In late May, city officials warned contractors they face stiff fines if they keep on severing power cables in their haste to build new projects.

20.   In the past, the Cuban authorities generally punished people trying to leave the island by raft with jail sentences or stiff fines.