Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running our foreign policy been tougher than you expected...
...need tougher judges but tougher parents, teachers and clergy...
...human rights appeal as a means to rally domestic support. The Russians actually think that Carter is under strong popular pressure at home to conclude agreements with Moscow. In fact, Americans generally -and most members of Congress-like Carter's firmness and would endorse an even tougher stand. Moscow is believed to be gambling that a new President will shrink from confrontation if only the Russians seem menacing enough. That is hardly Jimmy Carter's style...
...Baseball coach Park agrees. "There's nothing like personal contact as far as I'm concerned. We feel we still get the good student-athletes, we get great athletes. But when a guy's in the kid's house, talking to him, talking to his parents--it makes it tougher on us." The familiar idea that Harvard is good enough to "sell itself" to prospective students fades a bit when a Brown or Yale recruiter is around to give the opposition a hard sell, and to clear up misconceptions a high school student may have about Ivy League life...
...farther into it, the tougher it gets," says one administrator. The task force on educational resources will not release it report until next fall, but when it does it could create a controversy. Chaired by James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking, the educational resources group is trying to determine how the Faculty's resources can best be allocated between the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), and between the departments...