Word: tough
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...Strategic Defense Initiative, cut $502 million out of Bush's $1.9 billion plan for a rail- launched MX missile, and completely eliminated $100 million for the Midgetman missile. Griped Bush: "Yesterday was not the House's most memorable moment." The Senate is expected to complete its own, equally tough spending prescriptions this week. Differences between the two versions will be resolved in a September conference...
Jaruzelski offered Walesa seven of 21 Cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and the ministries of health, industry, environment and housing. Again Walesa refused, on the grounds that only a Solidarity government would have enough support to carry out the tough austerity measures needed to ease Poland's economic crisis. A junior role in a coalition government would implicate Solidarity in that crisis without giving it the means to bring about significant change. "By remaining in opposition," said Walesa, "we can make sure that the government doesn't leave the road to reform...
...fixed level of 6.25%, or provide a 25% increase in credit over the next four years. The 15 commercial institutions that took part in the negotiations hold the majority of Mexico's commercial-bank debt. But for the plan to be effective, the banks will have the tough task of persuading 500 of their smaller brethren, which carry the rest of the debt, to go along...
...fear in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Seeking a gimmick to rebound from a disastrous election in 1986, the J.S.P. asked Doi to take on the party's leadership. Fearing she had been chosen as a "paper tiger" with no influence over policy, Doi, according to some reports, conducted tough negotiations with back-room power brokers to win the clout she felt she needed...
After the first catch comes the tough part: waiting for the next one. It can take months of beating the waters before it happens again, and the anticipation can be painful. The novice consoles himself by turning to books. Few other sports have been written about so thoroughly by so many authors, from Izaak Walton to Ernest Hemingway and Tom McGuane. You search for what fathers or uncles in an earlier generation used to pass down over dinner tables or around campfires: secrets of the water, hints about how to read streams and tread them lightly, how to intuit...