Word: toughed
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...arrival at Harvard. And even when she had to take time off from school to have multiple surgeries to help with her allergies, Merritt did not miss a beat on her arrival back in Cambridge.“With the health issues she had freshman year and the tough class schedule she is always juggling, it would have been really easy for her to stop,” senior Brittan Smith said. “As a teammate, I am grateful for what she contributes to our team. As a friend, I am even more grateful to have her there...
...think the President smartly believes that that needs to be put to the side, because we’ve got tough decisions to make and we’ll worry about 2012 when we get there...
Plouffe offered several explanations, including tough attacks from the Clinton camp, the portrayal of Obama as a “rock star” in the media, Clinton’s “moment of emotion,” and a “subterranean battle with John McCain for independent voters...
...It’s always pretty intense when we go down there,” senior Tom Stack-Babich said. “Their coach is fiery and they feed off that. It’s always a pretty heated battle.”But the tough atmosphere does not scare Walsh or his team.“I worry about the players on the field and not the fans or the coaching staff,” Walsh said. “We’ve played in front of some wild crowds at Brown but we?...
...crew members, according to the International Maritime Bureau's piracy-reporting center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Filipinos comprise nearly half the captives; a majority of the rest are from India, with smaller numbers from other South and Southeast Asian countries. In all these countries, sailing is seen as a tough but lucrative profession that fetches handsome dollar incomes relative to the amount of education required. Even amid the present economic gloom, officers' salaries have not plunged due to a shortage of qualified people. Indians and Filipinos are most in demand on international vessels because they speak English. But many Indian...