Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emulation. On the other hand, when Rocky's aggression was highly successful in amassing rewarding resources, he was chosen by most of the children as the preferred model for imitation. The surprising finding, however, is that without exception these children were highly critical of his behavior (e.g., "Rocky is harsh" ... "Rough and bossy" ... "Mean" ... "Wicked" ... "He whack people...
...international prices of their goods as a 4 or 5 per cent upward revaluation would have had. (But adjusting export taxes does not have the same psychological impact on speculators that a revaluation has, and the Germans knew that, too.) And their position wasn't really so harsh, once it had been stripped of its vindictiveness. They were asking why they should sacrifice any of Germany's hard-earned prosperity simply because the English and French couldn't manage their economies and their currencies and keep pace. And, put that way, it doesn't seem so unreasonable a question...
...Nasser soon learned, that was hardly what the demonstrations had been about. Egypt's students are chafing under harsh regulations of their conduct, including a ban on all public demonstrations. They have nothing but contempt for what they call "the society of coined slogans" produced by Nasser's controlled press. What is more, they bitterly resent the government's system of job placement, which often finally assigns them to fields for which they are unprepared...
Resolving the differences will require each nation to sacrifice some monetary sovereignty and turn over more authority to the International Monetary Fund. But the harsh fact is that the current, outdated system has already cost much sovereignty by forcing nations to take unwanted and potentially unhealthy steps to raise taxes, restrict trade and deflate economic growth for the sake of sound money...
Helpless and Hopeless. A likely answer is that people are just plain scared of crime, and so, as a result, they either ignore it or else demand harsh retaliation. In turn, the U.S. penal system punishes criminal symptoms rather than cures criminal causes. The product is more crime...