Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million students settle down to another school year, a growing number are finding-and responding to-a new demand for excellence in the classroom. More required courses and tougher graduation requirements. No-frills curriculums featuring basic skills. Old-fashioned homework and computer literacy. Rigor without the customary mortis...
...competition. Fasi again led all scorers with six goals in burying the Tigers. Button, senior Steve Munatones and sophomore Brian Johnston each chipped in three goals. Munatones was pleased with some aspects of the offense: "When we wanted to work something out there we could. But we like playing tougher teams...
After blowing out both Penn and Columbia last week, the Crimson went into yesterday's meet confident. Second-year Coach Frank Haggerty used this race as an experiment, which might prove useful against tougher Ivy opponents Dartmouth and Princeton. Haggerty sent his harriers out with instructions to run the first four miles of the 6-2-mile course hard, in an attempt to outdistance their opponents quickly. The strategy worked, as Harvard took the first six, and the eighth through eleventh places, while many Harvard best times...
...proper medical care even if their parents or physicians were willing to let them die. In May 1982, the department informed the nation's 5,800 hospitals that they could lose federal funding if they withheld treatment or nourishment from handicapped infants. This edict was followed by a tougher regulation requiring hospitals to post large signs in public places bearing the inscription "Discriminatory failure to feed or care for handicapped infants in this facility is prohibited by federal law." The posters provided the number of a 24-hour, toll-free hotline for anonymous informers who wanted to report violations...
...banks are overcharging Latin customers and thereby making the world debt crisis worse. Says Robert Solomon, a Brookings Institution guest scholar and an expert on international finance: "I realize the banks thought they were under greater risk, but they should also have known that they are just making it tougher for their debtors to put themselves back on their feet...