Word: tough
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General Colin L. Powell has had a tough time staying out of Washington. Since he was first spotted as a bright young comer while a White House Fellow in 1972, Powell has shuttled in and out of Pentagon and civilian desk jobs. No sooner had he finally won command of the prestigious V Corps in West Germany in 1986 than Washington beckoned again, asking him to trade his coveted flag post for duty as Deputy National Security Adviser...
...Bennett also fervently advocates getting tough on casual users, through punishments from boot camp to community service to the loss of driver's licenses and student loans. "In many ways, the casual user is a more significant carrier of problems than the addict," he says. "That person by example often suggests that you can do drugs...
Given the inherent frictions between the Communists and the opposition, it is questionable whether any Communist candidate for Prime Minister would have coasted to victory. Even so, some Solidarity legislators found Kiszczak, 63, particularly tough to take. During his eight-year tenure as Interior Minister, Kiszczak controlled the police and paramilitary forces and was responsible for hunting down and jailing Solidarity activists during the martial-law crackdown that began in 1981. Many of those activists are now seated in the Sejm...
...Tough policies more than tough talk will be needed to overhaul the economy. A World Bank report shows that state subsidies in Poland have grown alarmingly in recent years, and now amount to 30% of budget expenditures. To continue the supports is to risk bankruptcy. Yet removing them could create just the sort of hardship that provoked violent unrest in the past, leading to the downfall of governments in 1956, 1970 and again in 1980, the year Solidarity was born...
Spurred on by their early successes, pro-Iranian extremists have continued taking hostages and killing members of the American military with relative impunity. Despite the tough rhetoric cultivated under former President Reagan, things have not gotten much better...