Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will face first a leveling off, and then a decline, of North Sea oil revenues after some fields begin to go dry. This will mean that the Conservative government will no longer be able to count on the oil cushion that has so far helped it to soften the harsher effects of the recession. With inflation down, Thatcher is expected to take more risks to protect the recovery. To improve British competitiveness in world markets, Brittan expected the government to encourage a fall in interest rates, as it did last week, in order to slow the rise of the pound...
Still, the Socialist government faced a continuing erosion of its authority because of a growing lack of conviction that its harsh economic medicine will work. Faced with a weak franc, record trade deficits and about 10% inflation, Finance Minister Jacques Delors last March imposed an austerity plan that was harsher than anything his conservative predecessors ever proposed. He chopped $7 billion in current spending, imposed a 1% personal income surtax and required each taxpayer to make a loan to the state equal to 10% of last year's income tax. The measures would diminish the purchasing power of virtually...
...feel used," one minority freshman told Moses last week, commenting on the discrepancy between the admissions office and freshman dean's policies. Another student, speaking at a race relations conference last weekend, was even harsher: "The College is using minority students like a circus--to perform for other people." The students see the calendar issue as part of a wider University disregard for the concerns of Third World and women students...
...last week, "We found we had a problem. We corrected it. We reported it to the appropriate authorities. We called in our competitors, urged them to adopt our practice. This was really an attempt by industry to police itself." The Viet Nam veterans' lawyer, Victor Yannacone, has a harsher view. He calls the backstage parleying nothing less than "a conspiracy of silence...
...Democrats' attack on the defense budget was even harsher. Senator Edward Kennedy badgered Weinberger to say whether America's armed forces could defend the U.S. When Weinberger replied that the country's current power to deter attack is not "sufficient," the Massachusetts Senator declared, "You are the first Secretary of Defense to appear and say we are unprepared and vulnerable." Weinberger told Kennedy: "You still have a propensity not to listen." The Democratic barrage culminated when Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan called Weinberger "an ideologue" and "a fanatic" who was "damaging the national defense." Weinberger labeled Riegle...