Word: harsher
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...roots of modern banking could be found in northern Italy, where Florence's gold coin (the florin) and Venice's (the ducat) became, in effect, international currencies. But banking and Catholicism were then uneasy partners: the church condemned usury -- defined then as any interest on loans -- in language harsher than bishops today use to denounce contraception. The reformers were more lenient. Gradually Europe's great centers of commerce were established in predominantly Protestant Holland and England. Innovation followed upon fiscal innovation. Grain futures were traded in Amsterdam in the 16th century. Paper currency began to replace metal coins. The first...
...make a political statement about the plight of Australia's indigenous population. "I am particularly concerned with the culture and existence of Aboriginal peoples and minority groups," he said. Two of the poems he recited focused on Aboriginals. One was a fantasy about past, better times; the other a harsher picture of the reality Aboriginals face today...
...design in his hometown of Envigado. By most accounts, Escobar continued to run his billion-dollar business from behind the walls. So when Colombia's director of prisons and a deputy minister of justice entered the jail last week to tell Escobar he was being transferred to a harsher military prison, the drug boss would have none of it; his lieutenants produced hidden weapons and took both men hostage...
...billionaire Ross Perot, Bush and his aides took it as a sign of personal betrayal. By turns shocked and furious, they vowed that Rollins had ruined his future in the Republican Party and accused him of caring about little more than money and revenge. Once they simmered down, a harsher reality set in: Perot had signed up a pair of veteran strategists who had helped win the White House three times in five tries and were now joining forces in a bid to do it again...
...Administrative Board of Harvard Law School slapped the so-called Griswold Eight with a warning last week, declining to impose a harsher punishment on the students who held a sit-in outside the offices of Dean Robert C. Clark...