Word: tougher
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Even if Ford wins an election mandate for the next four years and the Democratic majority in Congress is somewhat diminished, he will have a hard time because the Democrats will have fresh and tougher leadership on the Hill. The Speaker of the House will no longer be the amiable Carl Albert but Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a shrewd liberal who will more aggressively challenge the White House. In the Senate, the favorite to replace Montana's scholarly and restrained Mike Mansfield as majority leader is West Virginia's Robert Byrd...
...Harvard cross-country team ran its best race this season in yesterday's Heptagonals meet, but the opposition proved tougher, as Princeton edged the Crimson out of first place, 65-71, thus snaring the top slot in the Ivy League track listings...
...PRODUCTION of this play which features a Gwendolen who's tougher than her august Aunt Augusta. But if Clapp's ingenue is enough to make a young man's blood run cold, Victoria Allan's Lady Bracknell is strikingly unintimidating. Hers is the best character part in a play filled with nothing but. As the grim dowager symbol of the aristocracy in rout, Allan actually manages to be boring; she plays on the same emotional level throughout, scarcely varying her slow delivery, never rising to farcical peaks of anger or ridiculousness...
...international adventure," Carter proposes to make greater use of Congress, the State Department and the Cabinet in formulating foreign policy. In place of what he terms Kissinger's "balance of power" outlook, Carter vows to pursue what he calls "world order politics" and says he would be a tougher negotiator with the Kremlin. What all this means in practice, however, is somewhat unclear. Carter is similarly vague in explaining how he might succeed (where Ford has had trouble) in convincing Moscow-and the Pentagon-that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should begin reducing their nuclear arsenals. It is also uncertain...
...beauty, clean air, water and landscape." According to Lewis Regenstein, executive vice president of the Fund for Animals, "Carter has taken a stronger stand [on environmental issues] than any other candidate in modern times." In contrast to Ford, Carter favors a federal role in long-range land-use planning, tougher controls on air and water pollution and a bill that would "require reclamation of the land as a condition of strip mining." One of Carter's villains is the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers, which he claims is far too eager to build dams that...