Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to scourge those who do not meet his standards. Once asked when he would cease hounding a man. Mollenhoff replied, "When he drops." By the time he joined the White House, many were already weary of his zealotry. But with his new powers, Mollenhoff, 48, is a still fiercer hunter. There is even a rumor making the rounds that the lawyer-journalist-investigator will be J. Edgar Hoover's successor as FBI chief. "If I have made some people uneasy," Mollenhoff once said, "it's not really me that's bothering them. It's something...
...nonexistent ten years ago; today it is Morocco's second biggest (after agriculture) and fastest growing industry. During 1969, 650,000 foreign tourists, 50,000 of them Americans, are expected to visit what Moroccans call the "Fortunate Kingdom." Many will come in the summer, when the sun is fiercer. But the big boom is now, in winter. These days, only the lucky find hotel rooms ("We just had to turn Charlie Chaplin away," a clerk at Marrakesh's Mamounia Hotel boasted last month, probably falsely). The rest have to make do with tents, trailers or sleeping bags slung...
...swerve in policy. The surtax will have some bad effects for companies: it will cut into corporate profits and decrease spending for improvements. At the same time, the new tax ought to make some change in the tenor of company-union relations. Up to now, when labor negotiations are fiercer than usual, the advantage has been with labor. With full employment and rising prices, unions have been able to negotiate contracts with an average increase of 5% or 6% in wages. The surtax may change this. Economists estimate that one effect will be to in crease unemployment from...
...family life. "There's been a lot of sin committed in the name of the family," he says. "Sins on the children, sins of husband and wife to each other. I feel about the family as I do about the middle class, that it's somehow fiercer in there than has been assumed...
...during the past two weeks have all but obscured a grim new reality in the actual warfare in Viet Nam. The fighting so far in 1968, as General William Westmoreland observed last week, has been "the most intense of the entire war." Moreover, most of the initiative in the fiercer fighting since New Year's Day belongs to the Communists, despite the inevitably heavy losses such aggression means in the face of the allies' overwhelming superiority of firepower. Some 2,800 Communist troops were killed during the first week of January, the highest weekly toll...