Word: tougher
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Difficult as it is for the police to perform their appointed jobs within the restraints of the law, the problems facing the courts may be even tougher. A U.S. citizen haled before the bar has every right to expect swift and impartial justice. Too often he gets neither. "Our system of justice deliberately sacrifices much in efficiency and even in effectiveness in order to preserve local autonomy and to protect the individual," says the commission. "Sometimes it may seem to sacrifice too much...
...because a Sudanese Communist had made a slanderous remark about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels and, Sadik believes, wants to establish a Moslem theocracy throughout the Sudan...
Some of the other problems the committee will confront will be tougher to deal with, since they concern the premises of education, not administration. But Clark Byse, the committee's forthright and open-minded chairman, has encouraged his group to be responsive to the students-at-large, to meet objections openly, and give the Law School's students a sense of influence on their education which has heretofore been denied them...
Nayar can reach the semi-finals today if he beats Chris Keidel of Penn and the winner of the match between Chris Gadsden (Yale) and Bob Hellerson (Dennison). Gonzalez's path will be tougher. After an easy match with Bill Crane of Williams he will meet Navy's Scott Ryan, the number two seed and the only collegiate player ever to defeat Nayar...
Cajoling Legislatures. The successes of the A.F.T. are rapidly pushing the 110-year-old N.E.A. into a tougher stance of its own toward improving teachers' salaries and working conditions. Organized primarily by professors of education, the N.E.A. has long been dominated by its principals and superintendents rather than by its teacher membership, and A.F.T. officials sneer at it as a "company union." Traditionally favoring discreet pressure rather than open protest, the N.E.A. has done its most effective work at the state level, where its sophisticated lobbyists have cajoled legislatures into sharp increases in state school...