Word: tougher
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...goes according to plan, Harvard will compete in the eastern NCAA qualifying rounds. Hansen says although the tougher line-up of teams may make the squad's record (10-7 last year) "suffer a little," the club-turned-team can use the opportunity for self-education...
...dramatized the change by making it a Presidential Directive. Brzezinski was the chief advocate of the move, while Brown is thought to have favored keeping the policy an internal Pentagon matter. A number of critics believe that Carter wants to publicize the matter because he needs to appear tougher on defense is sues to blunt criticism from G.O.P. Nominee Ronald Reagan. Says Herbert Scoville Jr., former CIA deputy director for research and now a strong advocate of arms reduction: "They're playing politics with the thing." Observes former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "I do not believe that...
Some Iranians were kind and helpful with small favors, such as fetching books and clothes for the captives. Others liked to harass them; one tactic was to ignore their knocks on their doors to delay them from going to the bathroom or getting something they needed. The tougher captors, including a fellow called "Old Stoneface" by the hostages, "were on a real ego trip," says Queen. "This was the big moment of their lives." Queen was blindfolded whenever he left his room, and except for his roommates, he was not allowed to speak to other hostages...
...nation's airlines are engaged in their greatest aerial combat ever. It is also their most costly. With cut-rate fares and fierce overcompetition taking the place of missiles and machine guns, the airlines are battling for survival in an ever tougher market. They have become so intent on shooting down one another "that they seem to have forgotten how to make money. Normally late spring and summer are the peak periods for airline profits. Not so this year. Last week as many of the nation's major airlines released their financial results for the second quarter...
Illinois Senator Charles Percy suffered an even tougher defeat at the hands of his own state's delegation. He took vigorous exception to the platform's judiciary plank, which proposes that only people who oppose abortion should be appointed federal judges. "The worst plank that has ever been in a platform," railed Percy at a special caucus of the Illinois delegation. But at a Reagan lieutenant's request, two Illinois delegates were prepared to deflect Percy's challenge. The delegation voted by 75 to 27 to table Percy's motion...