Word: toughened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After losing to Springfield on the road last Wednesday, the Crimson had hoped to toughen up its intensity for the road match against...
...Giuliani's campaign succeeds, law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. may be inspired to toughen their policies. At least 20 states already allow officers to take cars from repeat drunk drivers. There is ample precedent for such seizures, but usually they involve habitual offenders or hardened criminals. Federal and state laws have long permitted authorities to seize and auction homes, cars and just about anything else that can be tied to certain drug, bootlegging, prostitution and other crimes. Just days after Giuliani's expansion of the idea, neighboring Nassau County implemented a similar law and crowed that five cars...
...certain kind of overachiever: a woman who can talk about school vouchers, Medicare Part B and the Third Way of post-cold war politics but who didn't see the psychological implications of taking her family along on her honeymoon; who thought it would be a good idea to toughen up six-year-old Chelsea at the dinner table by telling her all the terrible things being said about her father; who didn't know her close friend Vince Foster was in trouble until the day he shot himself. "She has always thought psychological analysis for her was kind...
...perfect place. It was built on competition, human communications, flexibility and risk. Men as well as women have had to endure hardships and personal challenges to succeed. Both men and women should exhibit tact and professionalism toward those with whom they work. And women in the workplace need to toughen their attitudes and demonstrate their ability to function in a variety of situations. KYLE CHERITON Tokyo...
...among many Muslim autocrats in this century to embrace a mission designed as a corrective to the West. Kemal Ataturk, the most daring of them, introduced Turkey, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, to Western-style secularism in order to toughen his society against Europe's imperial designs. In the 1950s, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, more intemperately, initiated a fierce campaign of Arab nationalism aimed at eradicating the vestiges of Western colonialism from the Arab world...