Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulk of the extra funds could go towards salary increases for the city's union workers. Healy, who will be negotiating with most of the municipal employee unions during the summer, said the additional aid could make bargaining tougher. "They [the unions] read the papers too, and they'll figure with all this extra money, I should give them a new pay raise," he added...
...Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin, and a working relationship with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Haig had established himself as the Kremlin's principal point of contact on START. Now the Soviets are worried not only about Haig's departure, but about the possibility that Weinberger, who favored an even tougher stance on negotiations, will reassert himself...
Down in California, the case involved a Los Angeles busing plan ordered by a state court, not one adopted voluntarily as in Seattle. A 1979 antibusing referendum amended the state constitution to make it tougher for plaintiffs to win mandatory busing orders. California's constitution had required state judges to impose busing when necessary to cure school segregation even if it resulted from housing patterns that developed without any official intent to segregate. Federal law requires proof of official intent. When they approved Proposition 1, Californians essentially embraced the looser federal standard. By an 8-to-l vote...
...Hickley decision may or may not have been correct: only those well-versed in the nuances of human will can begin to guess. One thing is sure, however, political conservatives will use the unpopular not guilty verdict to back up their calls for tougher criminal justice policies, to roll back the procedural guarantees of the accused enshrined during the last quarter-century and now under attack anew in Congress...
...Labor, and 22% the Social Democrat-Liberal alliance. Said a senior Thatcher aide of the British spirit: "We do take a long time to rouse. We avoid it. But when we are roused, there's no stopping us. The ordinary working man in this country is a much tougher bastard than he is given credit...