Word: tough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After easily defeating Navy Friday in Annapolis, Md., the Crimson dropped a tough 57-56 decision to Columbia Saturday in New York...
...meeting strengthened Roman Catholic officialdom's stand against advocating condom use for homosexuals or distribution of sterile needles to drug addicts, particularly in a tough opening speech by New York's John Cardinal O'Connor. Father Rocco Buttiglione of Liechtenstein's International Academy of Philosophy went so far as to suggest that the AIDS scourge could be a "divine punishment," but quickly added that it was aimed not just at sexual misconduct but at all modern forms of sinfulness. The various flare-ups tended to obscure the repeated theme on which everyone at the conference agreed: AIDS is a horrendous...
...while most students look forward to sitting down with the family at a traditional dinner, Yard advisors say Thanksgiving can be a tough time for those who aren't able to make it home...
...ahead in the polls and was willing to take some of the tough stands a leader in politics must make, cutting services and raising taxes," Kennedy said of Tsongas. "He had a unique ability to reach out to people, both in the business community and the human services community...
Schools, of course, cannot be isolated from neighborhoods plagued by drugs, gangs, crime and poverty. Says Miller, the teacher who faced a kindergartner's gun: "Whatever is out on the street seeps into the schools." Violence, however, is no longer confined to tough areas. In an affluent part of Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little...