Word: toughening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli position will harden as a direct consequence of the loss of blood," Safran said Monday and the Arab position is likely to toughen, too, in the wake of Israeli air strikes deep into Arab territory...
...Chief Justice did concede that many current state statutes are so vaguely drawn that they do not give clear notice of what is banned. The court, therefore, was careful to toughen the standards for anti-obscenity laws in an effort to prevent imprecise or overly extensive statutory language. Only "works which depict or describe sexual conduct" can be outlawed, said the court, and that conduct "must be specifically defined by state...
Simultaneously, the Price Commission continued to toughen its regulation of the companies with annual sales of $50 million or more that must report price and profit data. The commission ordered more rollbacks involving major companies, though relatively minor products. Textron Inc., for example, must rescind a price increase on snowmobiles, and Armco Steel will have to cancel hikes on such merchandise as soap and hammers sold in its oilfield supply stores, which account for less than 1% of Armco's sales. Both companies were also ordered to refund money to customers who were charged the higher prices. Associated Wholesale...
...grinding extra hours and display the single-minded determination necessary to make it to the top in much of U.S. business. "Women tend to see a job as a 9 to 5 thing," admits Mrs. Jane Gould, Barnard College's placement director. "We've got to toughen them up if they want to get ahead...
...seem a harmless temptation for "relevance"-oriented academics to become "insiders" or government policy-makers as well; when they do so, however, they invariably "toughen" their language and couch their ideas and recommendations in more "hard-headed" terms than they might otherwise use. As anyone who has observed U.S. policymaking knows, there is an atmosphere of bureaucratic machismo which infects decision-making and obliges everyone involved, full-time officials as well as academic consultants, to talk much more brutishly than they would in private. Not only does the government lie as a corporate unit, but each official likewise conceals...