Word: harsher
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...higher degree of violence than it has unleashed thus far, and Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government is under increasing domestic pressure to up the ante. Israel has once again cordoned off Palestinian towns throughout the West Bank and Gaza, and cabinet ministers and military officials suggested harsher responses were now under consideration...
...When this happened, Nathans typically came out in favor of a harsher punishment than the one recommended by her assistants, the former FDO administrator says...
...seems clear that Horton deserved a much harsher sentence, though no one knows what confidential information Lopez considered in her chambers. Regardless, Gov. Cellucci's responses to this sordid affair have done little to help. His proposals would result in more injustice than they would prevent...
Other changes include stricter regulations and harsher penalties for alcohol consumption, the requirement that fraternities and sororities have resident advisors and the banning of pledge recruitment during first-year orientation...
...does Gore fare badly with male voters? Why should the male verdict on Gore be so much harsher than the female? We enter a subjective realm - intuitive and irrational. One might grope around in pop anthropology and try out theories. For example: Men, habituated to teaming up in forms of disciplined aggression and governance (hunting, war, politics), possess well-developed, wary instincts about other men, including their qualities of leadership. Male intuition discerns which men can be trusted with power and which cannot. In Vietnam, for example, an American combat soldier evaluating one of his peers might say, "I would...