Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saudi ways, as well. Feisal puts in a 20-hour day, personally studies every new government project, and deals harshly with loafers. For several days a few weeks ago, Information Minister Jamil Hujaylan stood pointedly at the door of his ministry building, clocking employees in and out. Even tougher is Feisal's able younger brother Prince Sultan, his 41-year-old Defense Minister, who recently demanded that Feisal fire fully 75% of the ministry workers for tardiness after the long hajj (pilgrimage) holiday this spring. As for anyone found taking a bribe, Sultan says he will personally demand...
...Washington's powerful hierarchies, none rouses more anxiety among corporate officers than the U.S. Supreme Court. Case by case, the court has been making life tougher for companies that wish to merge. In the past eleven years, the high court has decided in favor of the Justice Department in 45 out of 50 antitrust cases; for seven years, it has not ruled once against the Government's other arm of antimerger enforcement, the Federal Trade Com mission. In that record, remarked Jus tice Potter Stewart recently, one consistency stands out: "The Government always wins...
...because the compound is colorless, tasteless and odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely by amateurs, but potential profits represent a strong temptation for organized crime. Tougher legislation will probably make LSD scarcer and therefore more expensive...
...running a string of 21 southeastern bowling alleys, Kazmaier joined sports-minded A.M.F. in 1962. He figures that football is fine training for corporate life because in both fields "You fight a lot of hard battles and you don't win unless you're smarter and tougher than the opposition." Businessman Kazmaier is "only a social athlete now-golf and tennis and that...
...year ago, the market was sent tumbling from 940 to 841, after the Fed's Bill Martin compared the modern economy with that of the giddy 1920s. Last February, the market climbed to a record 995 and seemed headed toward 1,000, but talk of tight money and tougher taxes again sent it down...