Word: tougher
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...only" majors. If the Faculty were to strengthen the College's honors requirements, either more students in honors-only concentrations would be forced to graduate outside their major or, through inflation of course and thesis grades, those who study in these elite curricula would effectively get to bypass the tougher requirements...
Against this backdrop, the Faculty has understandably been examining the issue for the past several years, and now a compromise proposal appears to be gaining momentum. The student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has forwarded a slightly tougher, fairer proposal for distributing honors to the Faculty Council, the Faculty's elected steering committee...
...some experts question the ability of regulators to keep up with the field they are supposed to be watching. Concedes a former FDIC official: "Getting good people and keeping them is very hard to do. They really are not compensated very well for their talents." The problem is made tougher because responsibility for overseeing the country's banks is shared by six federal and 50 state agencies...
There may be an additional reason for the tougher Vatican stance. The Pope's advisers believe that recent events have strengthened their case. They argue that natural methods have achieved greater reliability in preventing conception, that there is a bit less doomsaying about the population explosion and mass privation, and that health questions about artificial methods have been raised. To conservatives, the casual attitude in Western society toward sex provides an additional reason for concern...
Would 3M's experiments help improve some of its products? Could future space research yield a thinner, tougher Scotch tape? Perhaps. The only thing that 3M knows for certain is that the promise of manufacturing in space is enormous. So great is it, says Christopher Podsiadly, director of 3M's science research lab, that "we have to keep changing our expectations...