Word: tougher
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Making it even tougher is Romney's timetable. He is deeply involved with a special session of the legislature, which is considering his make-or-break tax-reform proposals. If his program passes, Romney must immediately plunge into budget conferences, then into another legislative session that will probably last until April. Only then will he even make up his mind about whether to run again for Governor. And by then, it may be far too late for him to make a move toward the presidential nomination...
This might not work with paper, but papyrus is tougher. It was made by cutting thin slices of the pith of the papyrus plant, laying them side by side and pressing two layers together with their grains running at right angles. Professor Bataille thinks that no glue or paste was used; the natural sap of the fresh-cut pith made the layers stick together. Sometimes the hot-water treatment restores the sheets until they are almost as good...
...just that was defeated by a single vote in the House Ways and Means Committee two weeks ago, but the so-called "Puritan ethic" amendment touched a responsive chord in the nation. Encouraged by the reaction, House Republicans met last week, overwhelmingly agreed to introduce an even tougher amendment when the bill reaches the floor this week. The proviso would delay the tax cut unless the President, in January's budget message, promises to hold spending to $97 billion for the current fiscal year (v. an already budgeted $98.8 billion) and to $98 billion for fiscal 1965. Without such...
...Dickie was joined by three white students who are the children of poor farmers. One is a girl of seven, another a boy of eight. The third is Brenda Abernathy, 16, who lives in a tumbledown shack. Her ordeal, rising out of the poverty of her father, is tougher than Dickie's, but Superintendent Sullivan was heartened by her presence, however reluctant. Said he in his opening prayer: "We ask you to bless the students and to encourage them to take advantage of an opportunity denied them for four years -one which, we pray, will never again be denied...
What is a young man to do today if he has a genuine urge to become a bum? The modern world is tougher on the vagrant than all previous civilizations. Hitler herded Europe's gypsies into Dachau and Buchenwald along with the Jews; the Soviets liquidated the bez-prizornye; the Welfare State frowns on the free-roving tramp; the American hobo has nearly died out, and even the Australian swagman, so mournfully celebrated in the national song, has become almost extinct...