Word: tougher
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...paper on the wines of the Jura, and I was very young when I finished my Ph.D. the next year, and I thought, If I can do that, maybe I can become an assistant professor. Aren't there kids like that now at the Sorbonne? Sure, but it's tougher for them. There aren't enough teachers; there's very little tutoring, the profs don't have offices. Many students are passive and get ignored. So money's a problem? At the Sorbonne, which is a literary university and gets less funding than scientific ones do, our annual costs come...
...tougher stance on feeding did have an effect on prisoners' willingness to go on hunger strikes."A lot of detainees said, 'I don't want to put up with this. This is too much of a hassle,'" says Craddock. Asked whether the new methods represented an"effective deterrent" to hunger striking, he answered,"Yeah...
...succeeded in persuading school boards to remove junk food from hallways without resorting to lawsuits. A coalition of parents and teachers persuaded the Los Angeles Unified School District to ban soda sales in district schools beginning in 2004. In late August the school board will consider whether to set tougher nutrition standards for cafeteria menus and vending-machine snacks. In June the New York City Department of Education announced it would ban candy and soda from school vending machines and would reduce the fat content in cafeteria meals. Kelly Brownell, the director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight...
...problem is that Royal, 52, whose partner Fran?ois Hollande is the Socialist Party Secretary, is solidifying her standing by espousing what many in the party leadership consider decidedly un-socialist, practically treasonous ideas. In recent weeks she has advocated a much tougher line on young delinquents. She wants to yank troublesome kids from middle school classes and put them in reform schools; withhold state family allowances from dysfunctional families until they take parenting classes, and even send teenage miscreants to military boot camp. Socialist voters, mindful of the youthful rampages last fall in the poor outlying housing projects and this...
...their four seasons. Nicholas finished this season second on the team with 13 points and three goals, while Anthony registered seven points (three goals, one assist). Nicholas was named to the All-Ivy second team in his final campaign. “This year, it was a little tougher [for the Tornaritis twins] because everyone was keying in on them,” said Harvard coach John Kerr following their final game. “But they really put this program on the map.” With two goals in the victorious season finale, Nicholas made sure that even...