Word: harsher
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Unlike the five other declared candidates, Dukakis argues that the best way to reduce the deficit would be to institute a tougher tax collection plan. The Bay State governor is proposing a multi-faceted approach which includes temporary amnesty for taxpayers and harsher penalties for tax delinquents...
...much fundamental change would these new political institutions involve? Focusing on process rather than result, Huntington dodged the issue; but he acknowledged that Geisel's "decompression" in the mid-'70s did not lead to real democratization in Brazil (p. 16). Brazilians, incidentally, tend to be harsher on Geisel, under whom the Brazilian military continued its dictatorial control behind a thin facade of indirect elections...
...ending. Profits were shrinking: during the second quarter of 1987, U.S. brokerages generated $553 million in pretax income, in contrast to $2 billion in the first three months of the year. Retrenchment of some kind was already in the cards. Last week's crash guaranteed that it will be harsher than was previously expected...
There is widespread corruption in the bazaars because of the rapid growth of the black market, which now pays at least ten times the official rate of exchange for foreign currency. When the Cabinet discussed the matter recently, Khomeini reportedly vetoed the idea of imposing harsher sentences for black marketeering because he thought it would only lead to greater public frustration...
Most Republican contenders are going through a mirror image of this drill. To independents and moderates, they talk about compassion as they attempt to disengage from the harsher aspects of Reaganism. But G.O.P. primary voters tend to be conservative loyalists. They want a combative leader who reminds them of Reagan -- or so the candidates think. Reagan's longtime pollster, Richard Wirthlin, cautions that the muscular approach does not work automatically. "People always rerun the last successful election," Wirthlin explains. "Now candidates are trying to bring forward what was a very important trait for Reagan...