Word: tougher
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...figured they could scrape together $204 million for the project. But they still needed a bond issue of a whopping $792 million. That broke down to a $27-a-year tax increase for the "median" householder in the region, whether or not he used the system. Making matters even tougher was a state requirement that the proposed bond issue be passed by 60% or more of the voters. By 61.1% of the total vote of 714,425, citizens of the three counties agreed to shell out the necessary money to build the first major rapid-transit program...
...accelerate its "peace" offensive; this could mean a protracted period of pleading for negotiations, perhaps coupled with sweeping proposals for European disengagement, in the hope that time and soft words might erode the capitalist enemy's determination to the point where Moscow feels it is safe to resume tougher tactics. This would certainly fit in with the views of those in the West who continue to argue that if Russia was reasonable enough to give up its Cuban bases, the U.S. ought to give up some of its own bases. A first sign of the line came...
Heightening Competition. Steel is depressed largely because its customers are steadily switching to such cheaper, lighter or tougher substitutes as concrete, aluminum, plastics and glass. In construction, with the increased use of reinforced concrete, the use of steel dropped from 12.5 million tons in 1957 to 9.3 million tons last year...
...part of the humanities program, the Committee might advocate a tougher language requirement: students should take at least one half course in the literature of a foreign language, on the grounds that a general education should include more extensive knowledge of a foreign language, on the grounds that a general education should include more extensive knowledge of a foreign language than is now called...
Those Republicans who had long been demanding tougher action on Cuba and who made it an important theme of their campaign, seemed likely to gain. Prominent among these were Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart and Pennsylvania's Senatorial Candidate James Van Zandt. Such experienced world affairs hands as California's Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Nixon also would benefit...