Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least part of Mansholt's program, particularly the assault on some surpluses, is likely to be adopted in one form or another fairly soon. The deeper structural reforms will have tougher going, especially in West Germany, where farmers tend to be more backward and conservative than anywhere else in the Common Market. Meanwhile, the plan received a major boost last week, when eleven of 13 Common Market commissioners voted to approve it. Though potent farm groups and individual governments have yet to be persuaded, many European officials were agreeing, at least in private, with what Mansholt was saying aloud...
...York City detectives, under the auspices of the First National City Bank, conducted a fraud clinic to acquaint merchants with ways of cutting their losses. Similar campaigns have been launched by retail associations from Georgia to Texas. Chicago retailers have urged the courts to take a tougher stand against shoplifters, asking for higher bond, fewer continuances and stiffer fines and sentences. Penalties already run as high as $10,000 and ten years in jail, but teen-age first offenders often get off with merely a reprimand...
...even tougher assignment faces the freshman cagers next Tuesday, when they tangle with a squad from basketball powerhouse Boston College...
...tougher stipulation of the law is that each campaign committee must report its income and expenditures to Congress ten days, and then again five days, before the election. The theory behind this requirement is that the voters should know before going to the polls whether any candidate has spent an excessive amount...
Weiland admitted yesterday that they were "getting ready for the tougher games coming up next week," but Northeastern will be only too anxious to trip up Harvard tonight as Brown shocked highly-touted B.U. Tuesday night...