Word: tougher
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...average test scores were actually higher than they are now. From 1963 to 1980, the average scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests fell more than 50 points in verbal skills (to 424 out of 800) and 36 points in math (to 466). And there was a pronounced rush from tougher to easier or "more relevant" subjects (see chart...
...year when Beckman was playing two spots below his present third slotting. After returning to the lineup in the sixth spot only two matches ago, Beren also handled his ferocious Tiger easily Fish said of Loud, "he's making some major strides and working very hard, becoming a much tougher competitor...
...crackdown last week was part of a coordinated allied counterspy offensive, there has clearly been a hardening line in the West, as evidenced by the ousting of 47 Soviet agents in France in early April. In recent weeks Britain, Italy and the U.S. seem almost in a uniformly tougher mood. Australia became the latest ally to act, evicting the Soviet embassy's first secretary on Friday for having "threatened Australia's national security." Bill Hayden, Australian Foreign Minister, said that an accumulation of suspicious incidents since the arrival of Valeri Ivanov in 1981 had led the government...
...some analysts that the best of times may now be over. They argue that the biggest bargains have already been snapped up. Says Prudential-Bache's Yardeni: "So far this market has made everyone look like a genius, but from here on in it is going to be tougher to pick winners." -By John Greenwald...
...Brzezinski had had his way, the U.S. would have sternly warned the Kremlin about the effect of its Ethiopian gambit on arms-control talks. He would have perhaps even sent an aircraft carrier to show the flag off the Horn of Africa. Brzezinski's response might have been tougher than Vance's, but he does not demonstrate how such actions could have been more effective...