Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While tougher than the Cornell match, Syracuse also posed little trouble for the Crimson netwomen...
...political explanations. "This marvelous news proves we are beginning to win the battle against crime," said Attorney General William French Smith. Steven Schlesinger, head of the Justice Department's bureau of justice statistics, attributes the new numbers to a national hard line on crime that has led to tougher sentences and sent the prison population skyrocketing. Schlesinger and others also give credit to the recent proliferation of neighborhood crime watch and other community self-protection projects...
...vote of all University employees in the future. And even though a unionization drive will now be harder for the simple logistical reason that all employees will be organizing themselves instead of just those at the Medical Area, the new union will be just that much stronger. Though tougher in the short run, the long-run results will be worth it. And so the Medical Area Employees, whose hopes for a quick election and recognition were dashed, should take solace in the fact that an all encompassing bargaining unit will provide strength and support. Nor should they overlook the fact...
About having wiretapped reporters: "I was paranoiac, or almost a basket case, with regard to secrecy . . . If you think I was tough on these leaks, [Henry Kissinger] was even tougher at times . . . One of the reasons that the release of the Pentagon papers caused great concern in the CIA was that one of the items in the papers could only have come from the fact that we had [Leonid] Brezhnev's car bugged...
...make the cop tougher, the SEC is asking Congress to stiffen the penalties for illegal insider trading. Those convicted in civil cases now receive wrist-slap sanctions that merely bar them from further misuse of information and make them relinquish their profits. A House-passed version of the SEC measure would impose fines of up to three times the gains made from illicit transactions...