Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance was highlighted by a third-place finish in the 1650 freestyle, the first individual race of the meet. From there, things got considerably tougher...
...European children ever have childhoods? Not in the '40s and '50s anyway, to judge from a bunch of recent movies. Death's shadow dogged a boy's heels; responsibility came early, and guilt tagged along. Kids grew up faster, tougher, with fewer fantasies and more urgent everyday nightmares. In wartime or in uneasy peace, childhood was no romp in the meadows of innocence; the evidence is on the screen. Two top contenders for this week's Oscar nominations focus on English boys growing up during World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied...
...borders. Among its provisions, the law requires that takeover artists who buy between 15% and 85% of a Delaware-registered company wait three years before selling off assets or merging the target firm with another one. The effect will be to tie up raiders' money and make financing tougher. Delaware felt compelled to adopt the legislation partly because 32 other states already offer similar protection...
...last month. He proudly cited an annual survey by the University of Michigan's Institute of Social Research that showed a sharp drop in the number of teenagers who had used cocaine and other drugs in the past year. The President did not mention the untold American failure: despite tougher law enforcement, widespread publicity and sweeping educational campaigns, alcohol remains the drug of choice among today's high school students, and its popularity continues unabated...
While the tougher tactics have eased frustrations within the ranks, some officers are worried that their troops' skills and discipline are being undermined. "There is a professional problem," says Nimrod, 34, commander of a Golani battalion. "I'm not doing what I'm trained to do. I'm not training soldiers to do what we should be doing." Like his men, Nimrod feels the stress of trying to obey his superiors. "As part of an explicit policy, I explicitly order my men to beat people, to beat them hard," he says. "I accept it because if we don't beat...