Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earning more than $350,000.) Considering the general decline in stock prices in recent months, some Wall Streeters thought it an inappropriate time for the exchange president's salary to go in the opposite direction. On the other hand, it could be argued that it's a tougher way of making a living these days...
...tried to stave off the coffee chaos by helping to set up a Coffee Study Group among all major coffee-producing countries; the effort failed because the Study Group's export quotas were not made binding. Delegates to the current U.N. conference all want a tougher international control system. The most promising plan calls for a five-year stabilization of coffee prices at the present level, or slightly higher...
Never had the competition been tougher, the well of talent deeper. Only the first two finishers in each event were eligible for places on the U.S. team-and in some events as many as 40 top athletes were battling for those two top spots. For many an old hero, what had been a winning effort last time around was just not good enough any more. In the end, the internecine warfare produced the intended result: the best team the U.S. has ever fielded for international competition, and one that is favored to beat the Russians once again...
...reliefers live in Cook County. Said he: "Anyone who makes relief a political issue had better be pretty careful. It has never been done in this state, and I hope to God it never will be." If Kerner sticks to his stand, he still will face far tougher decisions in January...
...committees are, if anything, even tougher nuts to crack. Here the Dean's most important function lies in his capacity as chairman of the Committee on Educational Policy that makes the key recommendations on the floor of the Faculty. Sometimes (as Bundy did with the Committees on Gen Ed and Advanced Standing) the Dean must juggle committees and departments whose aims are opposite to rejuvenate each of them...