Word: fiercer
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...best wishes. The good old USA will face much fiercer opponents than it did last night. Another team clad in red awaits the Olympians somewhere on the hockey horizon...
...wonder then that the fight shaping up over Judge Robert Bork, 60, the conservative legal scholar nominated by Reagan last week, promises to be far fiercer than anything that met the President's earlier appointments of Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia. By giving the court's right wing a decisive fifth vote, the addition of Bork could be as pivotal as the 1962 appointment of Arthur Goldberg, which consolidated the liberal majority that worked the Warren Court revolution...
...more precarious by the day. Europe's Airbus Industrie, which once seemed like a tiny speck on the horizon, is closing fast with hot new planes and cut-rate prices. Subsidized by European governments and charged by its rivals with making underhanded deals to win sales, Airbus has brought fiercer competition to an industry that has never been tranquil. It has also sparked a serious trade dispute between the U.S. and its allies across the Atlantic. The stakes involved are enormous: an estimated 2,000 planes worth $250 billion will be sold in the next 13 years...
...future, as the pool of players grows smaller and smaller, the competition for those players will grow fiercer. Even then, though, Harvard will have an advantage over the competition...
...areas. Some white backlash was to be expected given the continuing violence in the black townships and South Africa's severe unemployment and recession. In a speech last week to the Foreign Correspondents Association, Botha blamed foreign persecution for intensifying his country's troubles. "The more we reform, the fiercer the international campaign against us," he said. At week's end the government imposed restrictions on press coverage of strikes, riots and other social unrest. Even before the voting, the ever cautious Botha government was trying to deflect right-wing attacks. At a public meeting in Sasolburg, Foreign Minister Roelof...