Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will more than make up for Thal's departure with a combination of improved lettermen, promising freshmen and eager performers from last year's J.V. teams. "With the good girls coming in and the majority of the stronger players from last year, I definitely figure the team will be tougher this year," Wynn said...
...Lasky's book has any value, it is in raising a number of serious and worthwhile questions: To what extent did past Presidents overreach their authority? Were their violations in any way comparable to the excesses of Nixon? Did much of the U.S. press judge Nixon by a tougher standard than it had applied to his predecessors...
...week not just to tax but to forbid outright, beginning with the 1980 models, the sale of autos that do not get at least 16 m.p.g. Pondering these results, some of Carter's energy planners now express an ironic regret: they wish that they had sent Congress a tougher package...
...same time, Witteveen is anything but a passive administrator. He wants the IMF to provide more assistance and on tougher terms to economically troubled countries. He believes that fund members will approve some new articles that will enable him to police currency exchange rates. Even more ambitiously, he would like to see the IMF in role of a, world central bank...
...take a much firmer stand against Big Business and Big Labor. Says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "Quite honestly, at the moment I don't think the Administration's got an anti-inflation program." Unless the White House gets tougher, some economists fear, the job of restraining prices will fall to the independent Federal Reserve Board and its Chairman Arthur Burns, who has repeatedly made it clear that he will tighten up credit rather than permit runaway inflation. Whatever else it might accomplish, that strategy would almost certainly result...