Word: toughened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King's legislative liaison said yesterday that the governor will push a spate of proposals which he has introduced to toughen the Commonwealth's criminal codes. The main priority will be to pass legislation implementing the death penalty. State voters last Tuesday approved by an overwhelming majority a referendum making capital punishment constitutional in Massachusetts...
...factors of their lives dictate stern lessons and harsh measures. The aged are no longer left to die, but there are no discounts for senior citizens. Orphans go to the bottom of the social ladder, and the A.S.P.C.A. would not be pleased to learn that some polar dog-owners toughen their animals with hunger and the club...
...Haig for having misled the Western Europeans into thinking that Reagan had agreed to soften his opposition to the pipeline. In fact, when Reagan left Versailles, unhap py over the soft European stand on credit to the Soviet bloc, he still had not made up his mind whether to toughen the anti-pipeline sanctions...
...semester of every year and most students should be taking a math class every semester." U.C. Administrator Henry Alder stresses that low performance in high school could prove hazardous to college aspirations. Reason: by the fall of 1984 the state's 19 colleges and nine universities plan to toughen entrance requirements. The most dramatic new demands will occur at the state college level, where admissions will require 15 units of college-track subjects, including four years of college preparatory English and two years of math...
...Charles and Mike to their fateful folly. Says Karel Reisz: "Jeremy has the authority of a leading man without the narcissism that so often goes with it." Indeed, there is something of the fervid adolescent in his playing of these serious young men. It takes doomed love to test, toughen and mature Charles-and a compelling actor-personality to play him. Irons is equally persuasive as performer and fond lover. As Reisz notes, "Jeremy does have his Heathcliff side...