Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he fires up a secret still, a moonshiner violates no fewer than eleven federal laws, including one that commands him to display a sign "disclosing his name and occupation." Even so, moonshiners are tougher to catch than Viet Cong guerrillas. They booby-trap stills, wire the woods with hidden buzzers, warn one another with trained dogs and walkie-talkies. Only the best-trained woodsmen among federal agents can track them, usually at night when both sides flit through the back hills armed to the teeth...
Blending corn with cajolery, the President urged them to "join hands with your Government in a voluntary partnership." Appealing to their "progressive enlightened self-interest," he urged them to make "tougher" decisions to "postpone, to redirect or to refinance activities in the developed world." Said the President: "I want you to go back to your offices and call to your desk your financial men and your economists and your comptrollers and your vice presidents, and I would hope that you would ask them in a reasonable way to consult with you every time they face a decision that involves spending...
...Vague. Businessmen were clearly relieved that the program was not tougher. "I was pleased," said David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, "that a voluntary approach was taken rather than a resort to rigid capital controls." Still, many businessmen found the program too vague, felt that it would be hard to expect voluntary restraint on investments abroad without firmer guidelines. Michael McCarthy, chairman of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, suggested that the Government induce U.S. businessmen to bring more of their profits home by slashing the current 48% tax rate on such profits to the capital-gains level...
...more explicit sex, their teasing ads continue to nudge the boundaries of good taste. On the Los Angeles Times, those perimeters have been patrolled for the past four years by a two-man screening board that has let few slips show. Now the Times is determined to mount a tougher guard than ever...
...were to include a slight tightening of the domestic money supply to prevent dollars from flowing abroad, a tax on loans by U.S. banks abroad, and a jawbone campaign to persuade U.S. businessmen to reduce their foreign investments. De Gaulle's bombshell may have convinced the President that tougher action is needed. In any case, official Washington agrees with De Gaulle on at least one point: some changes should be made in a world monetary system that puts the U.S. under such strain...