Word: tougher
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...touch of imagination and the patience to keep detailed records can deduct fairly freely. But few businessmen who cater to the expense-account trade seemed to be overjoyed. "It certainly doesn't do anything for me," grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major damage has already been done," says Fred Hayman, resident manager of the Beverly-Hilton Hotel. "As a result of the initial crackdown, many big corporations tightened...
...even tougher than that. Nonetheless, the U.S. Navy is determined to locate the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher, 8,000 ft. down on the cold, dark bottom of the North Atlantic. No wreck has ever been found or even seriously searched for at so great a depth. But for weeks a strange fleet of floating scientific laboratories has been cruising the choppy waters 220 miles east of Cape Cod, and this week the weirdest craft of all is being towed into range. The bathyscaphe Trieste is preparing to dive toward the spot that undersea snapshots have tentatively marked as Thresher...
Smiling at the TV camera in her capsule-some viewers described her as resembling a tougher-looking Ingrid Bergman-Valentina thanked Khrushchev for his "fatherly concern," assured everyone that she was feeling fine...
Germany's "economic miracle" drastically changed the picture. As the pace of recovery quickened, thousands of the largely agricultural immigrants were retrained for industrial jobs, and became indispensable to the labor-short German economy. Sharing the credit for the tougher political miracle of resettlement are the Federal Republic's two major political parties. Competing actively for the "refugee vote," Christian Democrats and Socialists backed a unique 50% tax on all property that West Germans had managed to save through the war, in order to compensate refugees who had lost their possessions. A special Equalization of Burdens Bank granted...
...increasingly remote parts of the world, Berlitz now teaches 46 living languages from Afrikaans to Urdu. President Strumpen-Darrie (who gets by in half a dozen languages) and 48-year-old Vice President Charles Berlitz (15 languages fluently, another 15 passably) insist that non-European tongues are usually no tougher than European ones, and that almost anyone can gain a rough working knowledge after 30 hours of instruction and a good fluency (a 3,000-word vocabulary) after 120 hours. The price: $3 for group lessons, $6 for individual sessions. For Berlitz, this amounts to a profitable business that grosses...