Word: tough
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Legislators and regulators are asking tough questions: Should oil exploration in Alaska be drastically curtailed, or even stopped? Should larger areas of the state be put under federal protection from development? If the U.S. holds back the pumping of Alaskan oil, how will the country satisfy its hunger for energy...
Experts like Clifton Curtis, executive director of the Washington-based Oceanic Society, say state and federal officials should be stricter about enforcing the safety laws that already exist for handling oil, require tankers to be equipped with double hulls for added leakage protection, and impose tough personnel rules that would ban convicted drunken drivers from tanker commands. Other reasonable proposals include updating the training standards for tanker pilots and crews, and requiring oil companies to test employees for drug and alcohol abuse...
...really tough team and they had a couple of good players that came at us really hard," Dermody said...
...thought there were some questionable calls around the crease that gave them a little bit more of an edge than they should have had," Dermody added. "They had a lot of penalty shots and that made it tough...
...Charles Wilson (D-Tex.), who was among the three dozen or so of the 260 House Democrats to attend Wright's speech, said the event "serves to brace everybody up for a good, hard tough fight." But he added," We haven't hit bottom...