Word: tougher
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...construction of additional penitentiary space have helped spur the hunt for alternative prison sites. Corrections officials are also being prodded by judges: in 1986, at least 32 states were operating under court orders to reduce overcrowding in facilities. But an even bigger cause is the space crunch resulting from tougher sentences. "Until the public changes its mind on putting people away for long years, we're going to have a serious problem," predicts C. Paul Phelps, head of Louisiana's corrections department, which has 3,500 prisoners backed up in local jails awaiting space in state prisons...
...competition for friends and influence that is conducted by diplomatic courtship rather than through wars of national liberation and covert military activities. The old style of Soviet diplomacy, which tended to be clumsy and naysaying, was often actually helpful to America. A more sophisticated and flexible style will mean tougher competition for the U.S. Under what has been dubbed the Reagan Doctrine, the U.S. has attempted to counter traditional Soviet military expansion. But can it now come up with bold diplomatic initiatives that match Gorbachev at his new game...
...veteran who thinks so. Charlie Sheen traded his M-16 for an M.B.A. to play an overeager stockbroker named Bud Fox. The actor found the white-collar trenches of Gotham "much worse. When you get this overloaded mentality, it's tough to find ways to relax yourself. It's tougher than being a grunt...
...officials say they have no formal indication that the Soviets are trying to make an INF deal contingent on a framework involving SDI. "They are making tougher noises on INF," says a high-ranking Administration official, "but I have no sense that they are relinking." Another U.S. official close to the Geneva talks views Moscow's moves as typical presummit posturing. "Shock diplomacy is what they specialize in," says he. "Backtracking on ) INF linkage would be consistent with the kind of shell game we've come to expect...
...ideal of fairness is one that few Americans would quarrel with. A tougher constitutional question, however, is whether such fairness ought to be mandated by the Government or whether that violates a broadcaster's First Amendment rights. In early June the House and Senate, by wide margins, passed a measure that would codify the fairness doctrine into statute law. But the bill was vetoed by President Reagan, who called the doctrine "antagonistic to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment." Efforts to override the veto were abandoned last week, and the deregulation-minded FCC may soon be free...