Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gotten tougher for all the Ivy teams to attract the players they used to attract before. While Harvard and Cornell may be more successful because of other intangible factors, one problem affects every school: the question of financial...
...other candidates have learned this lesson well. George Bush unequivocally rules out a tax increase, saying that he will cure our budgetary ills with spending cuts. Mike Dukakis plans to raise revenue with a tax amnesty program and tougher enforcement. Pat Robertson has even suggested holding a "jubilee" every fifty years when all debts would be forgiven...
...have to get tougher," Barbi said. "Even if it is a narrower pool, we have to get tough and get around them...
Republicans realize the issue can undercut their general advantage of seeming tougher on national security matters. With that in mind, Bush journeyed to Manhattan, trying his darndest to sound still tougher on drugs. He called for the death penalty for "drug kingpins," saying, "These people are dealing in death, and that's what they should get." Bush likes to say he has been on the front lines of the drug war. Indeed, he was head of the South Florida Task Force and National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, both designed to promote cooperation among law-enforcement agencies in stanching the inflow...
...team, however, might have a tougher task. The Crimson fell to both Dartmouth and Brown last weekend despite impressive first place performances by Co-Captain James Russell, Rutledge Simmons, Chris Sullivan and Shawn Carew...