Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tougher regimen greeted the 200,000 tourists who went north to Poland: the chill Baltic waters and harsh Hanseatic architecture of Sopot and Gdansk (formerly Danzig). In Warsaw, a city rebuilt after being 87% destroyed in World War II, they could bargain for paintings along the broad Nowy Swiat, drink ice-cold Wyborowa vodka at the Krokodyl, or simply stare at the Vistula when the city's drabness overcame them. Rumania stands in warm counterpoint-from the white sand beaches of Mamaia on the Black Sea, where 30 well-appointed new tourist hotels stand, to the clean, well-lighted...
...mortgages from 5¼% to 5½% . Tax-free municipal bond yields rose to a postwar high of 3.83%, causing dozens of cities, counties and school districts to postpone or cancel millions of dollars worth of bond issues. Another effect of the credit pinch: auto finance companies have become tougher in risking loans, which is one reason why auto sales so far in 1966 are slightly off last year's record rate...
...listener who agreed went away saying: "He was talking 'Win.' He was much tougher than McNamara ever was before our committee, and tougher than Rusk." Senator Wayne Morse, who likes weak talk, grumped: "I think he has lost all his persuasiveness among people who think. I never expected my Vice President to make this plea...
...inflation is not here already, it is just around the corner, and President Johnson had better take tougher steps to stop it soon. That, after months of debate, was the clear consensus expressed last week by both liberal and conservative economists. The Life In surance Association of America warned that inflationary pressures are boiling up; so did the American Bankers Association and the National Association of Manufacturers. Most significant, former members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers-men who are Democrats and Republicans, experimenters and classicists, Keynesians and non-Keynesians-agreed impressively at a Washington symposium that...
...Labor government's campaign to modernize British industrial practices and thus attack the balance-of-payments problem at its source (see following story). But so compelling is the need that the bill also has solid support from Conservatives and in fact may be followed by even tougher regulations. "A first installment," Jay calls it; he promises a second that will cover now-exempt banks and insurance companies...