Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marketing gimmicks have ever been able to touch the gasoline credit card. With more than 36.4 million such company-issued cards in the wallets and purses of American motorists, stopping for a fill-up has rarely been much tougher than pulling into a station, whipping out the plastic and announcing, "Charge it!" The gasoline credit card was, indeed, one of the first mass-marketed charge cards, appearing as long ago as 1914 when Texaco, then a young company, began distributing them to customers...
...that Israel had proposed. In Israel, when I presented this plan and argued that I could not go back to Sadat with the Dayan plan but needed a fallback position, the Cabinet showed considerable ingenuity. It simply turned the Dayan plan into the fallback position, giving me an even tougher new position with which to open the bidding. Yet there was, despite the harsh terms, a sense that this was not Israel's last word but a show of bravado for domestic Israeli consumption...
...ultimately provide the Soviets with hard currency to continue their arms buildup. Even the British lack enthusiasm for economic sanctions, though Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government a week ago announced restrictions on Soviet and Polish diplomats, reduced landing rights for the Polish national airline, LOT, and imposed tougher standards for technology transfer to East bloc countries. As one senior British diplomat put it, "We don't think sanctions work. We have tried them before and know how ineffective they...
...when making major decisions. He has worked in the past at loosening environmental regulations, has strongly pushed for nuclear energy, and twice vetoed a bill imposing a deposit on beer and soft drink bottles. To trim the budget. King has cracked down on welfare cheats, made welfare qualifying requirements tougher and proposed a now-revised "workfare" plan which originally would have forced welfare recipients to put in some time working for the government...
King's staff hopes soon to move on to the issue of crime prevention, where they say the incumbent has a much tougher reputation than his predecessor. And by September 14, they hope that Democratic voters will believe that King best represents the economic interests of the working class...