Word: tougher
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...helped spur him on the race to the moon, and he sought a meeting in the summer of 1961 with Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy would not be humiliated or despondent. He vowed to win. Without the same superiority of power and with the crisis so distant, Carter has it tougher. The country's need, however, is greater...
...often prickly. Ministers who make a weak case or are deemed "wet" (spineless) are sharply chastised. In extreme irritation, Thatcher has a habit of slapping her palms against the green baize tabletop. In the House of Commons, her majority of 43 harbors rebellious, hard-line backbenchers who demand tougher restrictions on trade unions and more ruthless cuts in public spending...
Stung by his success with what the music biz still calls "middle-of-the-road" audiences, Billy Joel, an excellent balladeer and misplaced Broadway composer, set out to make an album that rocked harder and hung tougher. Although one of the tunes here is called It 's Still Rock and Roll to Me, the music sounds like Broadway without a book, and the lyrics are full of the backhand arrogance that Joel mistakes for true rock spirit. Midway through Side 2, Billy backs off a little and decides to flash his cosmopolitan credentials by trying a lyric in French...
...their firm dumped harmful chemicals into a river feeding a municipal water supply. But business lobbyists persuaded the drafters to remove the most stringent measures. The Department of Justice managed to get some of the provisions restored, but only in diluted form. Even so, the Senate bill is tougher than the House version, which, according to Justice, now contains fewer sanctions involving white-collar crime than does existing...
...most matters, the two bills are closer together. Both would make it easier to prosecute rape and tougher to impose gag orders on the press. Sex discrimination, like race discrimination, would become a crime. To come even this far has required much work: the hearing transcripts run for almost 20,000 pages. Supporters of the reform effort concede that a new code will not cure the nation's crime problems, but they are determined to complete the task. Another failure would mean starting all over again next year, and right now fatigue among the bills' backers...