Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classes and time logged in the library. This has meant sitting through morning classes after completing a pre dawn workout designed to push his body to the brink of exhaustion. It has also meant readying for midyear examinations when the workouts were getting more rigorous in preparation for the tougher part of the meet schedule...
ANOTHER FACTOR in the senator's favor is that Connecticut will be a much tougher state than Idaho or South Dakota for Dolan to conquer with his hard-sell campaign. Dolan succeeds by recruiting the support of individual special interest groups--groups much more difficult to pinpoint among Connecticut's dense, and traditionally moderate population. "Is this the same Terry Dolan who was so interested in the election of Jim Buckley to the U.S. Senate in my state?" Weicker asks. Despite hundred of thousands of NCPAC dollars, Buckley, a former senator from New York, lost to Democrat Christopher Dodd...
Rivitz credited freshman Fuchs and sophomore Beth Schwinn with particularly strong individual performances. Fuchs went 4-0 in both the Brandeis and Barnard meets and tallied two wins in the tougher UPenn contest...
...national convention of the Americans for Democratic Action. Over the past eight months he has called for, among other things, increased tax credits for big industry (to encourage more efficient energy use), and higher gasoline taxes to cut consumption. In the area of international affairs, he has supported a tougher American stance in response to Soviet aggression...
...Federal Government is now beginning to face the problem. The FBI has given 500 of its 7,800 agents a course in computer-crime detection. A bill before Congress would provide new and tougher penalties for computer tampering: up to 15 years in prison and fines as high as $50,000. When he introduced the legislation last year, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois warned that computer theft could be as high as $3 billion per year. Even with stepped-up law enforcement, companies themselves will have to be much more vigilant. The MAPS scandal showed how simple...