Word: tougher
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...dozen with rubber bullets. Security forces conducted sweeps in slum areas of the city, arresting a total of 11,000 men, who were hauled off to soccer fields and marked for police reference with indelible ink. If the unrest continues, Pinochet is likely to resort to a still tougher response: a state of siege of the kind that finally quelled similar unrest...
...Dartmouth beat Princeton. It'll be tougher than expected, but we should beat them," Corcoran said. With a season-ending victory. Harvard could finish ranked among the country's top 15 squads...
Today Kurzweil's peers are corporate giants like IBM and AT&T, and the competition is tougher. Yet the boy wonder, now 38, is still out in front. In 1982 his Waltham, Mass.-based company, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, developed the first computer capable of recognizing a substantial number of spoken words and transcribing them into printed text. Though its 1,000-word vocabulary was a dazzling breakthrough in the infant field of artificial intelligence, the machine had few practical applications because it was very slow, taking 2 1/2 minutes to print a single word. But Kurzweil is preparing to unveil...
Thatcher showed little patience for her counterparts elsewhere in Europe who refused to aid the U.S. Although the U.S. had repeatedly urged its NATO < allies to take tougher, nonmilitary action against Libya, she told Parliament, results had been "totally insufficient. She held to the view that "if one never took any action because of the risks involved, the alternative would be to be totally and utterly passive and supine before Colonel Gaddafi and anyone else who practices state-sponsored terrorism...
Speaking to about 100 students, educators, and state representatives, the governor plugged his Safe Roads Act, saying, "The people of Massachusetts support tougher measures against drunk drivers...