Word: tough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close game and a tough loss," Harvard junior Steve Cohn said. "We played `em really hard...
Dinkins' campaign manager Bill Lynch insists that the new mayor's consensus- building style will enhance his ability to deal with New York's seemingly intractable problems. Says Lynch: "The image that you have to be a tough guy to be mayor of New York is wrong." Perhaps, but the choices that the new mayor will face are certainly going to be tough. Says Ray Harding, head of the Liberal Party and Giuliani's earliest political ally: "David Dinkins brings tranquillity, and that's evidently what New York wants." As tough times hit, New York might need much more than...
...every dream deferred dries up like a raisin in the sun. In politics it can sometimes ripen and harden into a tough kernel of ambition, as the unimaginable slowly becomes transformed into the attainable. Such a gradual course requires patience, guile and discipline, rather than flamboyant words and heroic poses. But the subtlety of these stratagems should never mask the majesty of the dream or the boldness of the dreamer...
...Kids together in 1985, comes from neighboring Roxbury, where the streets are definitively mean. He has produced all the Kids' records, writes much of their material and commands the instrument work ("All instruments played or programmed by Maurice Starr" reads a large credit on the Hangin' Tough album). His gifts give the Kids a smooth buzz, but his ego increasingly gives them a pain...
...Crimson wasn't the only favorite to suffer through a tough opening weekend. R.P.I. sacked two-time defending ECAC champ St. Lawrence, 11-2, and Cornell lost to both Princeton and Army (3-1 overall, 1-1 ECAC). Brown, which hadn't won since last season's first game, tied twice. After the first weekend of action, the league appears to be much more balanced...