Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newer, more urgent problem of competition from the rebuilt industries of Western Europe and Japan. The power of Big Labor to keep pushing up labor costs beyond gains in productivity has dulled U.S. industry's once-keen competitive edge in world trade -and the competition will get tougher in the decade ahead...
...takes Fred Fellows, police chief in a small Connecticut town, several chapters merely to learn the identity of the dead blonde, or even that she is a blonde, since she has been separated from her head as well as her limbs. Spying out her falsehearted lover is an even tougher problem. Clever readers may spot the lady killer a few pages before the end, but the author has marked a fine trail of misdirection aw?ay from his quite visible murderer, and recognition will come with a shock...