Word: tougher
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...proposal for industry self-policing was unsatisfactory. The real question was whether Congress would accept President Johnson's original proposal that a soon-to-be-created Secretary of Transportation be granted "discretionary" powers to establish and enforce safety standards beginning with the 1970 models-or press for a tougher bill making it mandatory for the Secretary to lay down such standards beginning with the '68 models. In support of the harsher version, the committee called up a succession of educators, lawyers, Canadian legislators-and even Teamster Top Dog Jimmy Hoffa, who found himself in the unusual position...
...White House passed word that President Johnson would now be more than happy to support a tougher, "mandatory" bill. In all likelihood, the Government will be empowered to order that all cars have more padding, fewer knobs, fire-resistant upholstery, safer glass and door locks-and to fine the domestic manufacturers $1,000 per violation (or countless millions on a year's production of a major model), and to seize foreign autos that fail to meet the standards...
...stem such discontent, Eastern European countries are making it tougher for students to get into college and are channeling more of them into trade schools, which often lead to better-paying jobs. When Polish children complete their new, eight-grades schooling, one-fifth go on to four-year academic high schools, the rest to trade schools. After that they can take competitive exams for university training, but only 33,000 out of 80,000 applicants made it last year...
Undoubtedly, the law should be tougher on drinking drivers. Half of all the fatally injured drivers are listed by police as "H.B.D."-Had Been Drinking. Tranquilizers also play a role: doctors calculate that one pill equals one drink. The U.S. might be wise to emulate Sweden, where police routinely stop drivers and take suspected drinkers to the station house for blood tests; anyone with more than .05% alcohol in his blood stream (about one cocktail) is sentenced to as much as six months in jail. That is more than many a drunken driver in the U.S. gets for killing...
...power by force. Backed by a coalition of small parties led by three former Presidents, Trejos drew first blood when he charged the Oduber crowd with "growing socialism," then uneasily held still as his backers spread hints that Oduber was a Communist. For Trejos, running the country may be tougher than winning the office. Oduber's Liberation Party finished ahead in the Legislative Assembly races and promises to give Trejos plenty of trouble over the next four years...