Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side, Reagan's advisers are split on how far to go in urging the other countries to restrict trade with the Soviet bloc. The State Department would recommend only more restrictions on exports of strategic goods; the Pentagon wants a tougher approach, contending, for example, that West Germany should halt its plans to build a pipeline to import Soviet natural gas. U.S. summit planners have little hope of resolving that division by next week, so Reagan probably will confine himself to generalities...
...FALLOWS points out, there are two rigid and opposing orthodoxies on the question of national defense. On the left, activists splash blood on the Pentagon and protest every weapons system the military requests. From the right, tougher-than-thou Congressmen endorse every bad idea that comes out of Lockheed, lest the Russians gain an edge. And in the middle there's been next to no one combining expertise and objectivity. Fallows, one of the nation's best reporters, begins to fill that center with his new bestseller, National Defense...
Leonard had a much tougher time of it. It was Sugar Ray's first venture into the junior middleweight division, and the usually quick-footed boxer looked rather ordinary; the added weight definitely slowed Ray down. For his part, Kalule seemed an unwilling opponent. Like the boxing light-heavyweight champ, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Kalule threw only about ten punches per round. Still, his awkward southpaw style gave Leonard trouble, and in the seventh round, a straight right jab put Leonard on queer street...
...Israeli tactics Foreign Minister Cheysson had already declared that "we Socialists would never have signed this [nuclear] contract. At least not without a clearer idea of Iraqi intentions. And not without clearer guarantees that it could be used only for peaceful purposes." Paris would likely demand much tougher restrictions for the reactor if asked to rebuild...
...steel and automobiles are now limited in some way. And restraints in one country beget restraints in another. No sooner had Washington pressured the Japanese into limiting the number of cars shipped to the U.S. than the Europeans, who already control their auto imports from Japan, were demanding still tougher restraints...